her semen



personal as blood steeped jeans,

moist fingers

drawn and hung,



arabesque shadows, graven blankets, gratuitous

medication. now. silent pearl of gambit,

wine, waning hours shorn



to drift enclosure, first to next an enfilade

past menses, crossbreed shoals are organs,

men's and others given taste



for intersect, harm,

expulsion,



ancillary ways