spit your tongue
into my
palm curled curious
like caesar

wind it up
stay on your side
of the fence,
please,

peel me off 
your rotted rolodex
please will you do
this thing

for me
or should i still
be chewing
your gum

well into this winter
wired and
wailing like
the radiator

erode me aphrodite
she has you
burrowed
in my breath

you have me
blanching
in your fist
pretty in lace

spit me onto
the pavement
brute and teasing anywhere
but your bed

please let me into
the mountains
with my mouth
bleeding the way it does

smooth like
a drug deal
spit me onto
the floorboard

where i can
lament
the way you sink
brash like cement

should i be ashamed
of spending the autumn
in the spring
cowering in new york

like this man
in my bed
telling me
i like to play games

comb me out
i don’t have the stamina
for this soldering
skin me whole

skin me bitter
spit me anywhere
spell my name
spite me ferocious

spare me please

i am not lucky like you
when i surrender
i will need you to listen
to the way i waver

slow it down
wait for dawn 
to wilt and wane
and bow

and when i decay
desecrated and kneeling
at your glacial countenance 

forgive me

x bren