crystalline limes

ordinary obsessions
collapsing
an extraordinary skull
like a starving hyena
ravaging
its own innards

my parched
love-battered
soul
catatonic recluse
hiding under
the razor thin carapace
of a scorpion’s shadow
sipping a necessary
silence

but the parasites of desire
dangle like ancient ornaments
from pines perpetually oozing sweet promise
capturing ants in mid step
which die dreaming
of the queen

a silver slug’s sparkling trail
scribbled across Time’s engorged breasts

and a low slung destiny
dragging
like a bear’s autumn belly
across the frosty tundra
smoldering with hibernation’s ultimatum
“eat your fill or die”

asymmetrical grins
in a daydream
of the bottom of
endless

a cross-legged Goddess
weaving a smile
on my heart’s loom

and meteors twinkling
like crystalline limes
during this brief
eternity