Spread up
The arm
Stretched
To kiss
Your clavicle
Knotted, carved
Tearing
Black
To flesh
Clinging
The rim
The lid
Cupping
The shadow
The stone
Falling
Fell
Holding
The edge
Your key
Warming
The lie
Watering
The wound
The chasm
The pool
Tending
Feeding
That famous
Wailing
Pit
Teeming
Named
(And called)
Abyss.
Budding
Tendon
Muscle
Stretched
To bicep
Your shoulder
To cushion
Your joint
Blooming
The coral
To bushel
The rose
This muscle
Placed
To petal
The follicle
Pink
Faced
To fan
The vein
That blows
The blossom
Open
That pulls
The pistil
Shut
Closed
To bend
The hook
Your bone
Fixed
To wreck
The path
Growing
Curving
To throat
The brain
To bile
The blood
O’
Magnolia tree
Wisping
Its shade
To glaze
The skin
Your skin
Torn
To root
Once my root
Once
My skin
Once
My shade
That fell
The branch
Black
And branching
The damned
And rotten
Ligament
Leafless
Long-carved
Forgotten
To drain
The venom
Your venom
Named
(And called)
Abyss.