Map for Shadow Travelers

Feel the fertile heat from the jadestem
How it draws to the root and is born there
Surging salt and the steam of the dragon
Organ-bound in the rhythm of breathing
          Flexing with fire.

Up from knuckling into the legroot
Stretch of perfection that ends in the tailbone
seed of spine in the valley of secrets
Sweet that path up the spine to the fingers
          Divide and enter

I found this tracery inside the coil
Pressing backward to speak with the channel
even moving in inches around it
snaps his breath when he truly surrenders
          Hungry to howling

How the apple of energy ripens
how it pulses in hurricane measures
Draw its channel like sculpting a river
Let it fountain all over the body
          Up through the center.