His body not pastoral
Fragment—musculature
Suggests the word
Slur : curving a phrase
To completion—yet not
Knowable whole, as flesh
Descends[ and here
The paper burnt ]curl
Hung in curl, damp[ and here
The speaker, burnt, whispers
Anatomy ]please[ and here
The paper ]plexus[ between
Fingers ]pubis[ whispers
Please ]shadow down
[. . .]
What damage desires
Text, suffers surface
To abrade, puncture,
lacerate? Here white thighs
And the poem[ here
The paper deteriorates ]
And the body of the poem
[ The paper gets worse ]
Having what mouths
[ Holes ]I cannot forgive
him the elegy[ but here
The paper is torn ]mending
The kiss, sewing cuts inside
[. . .]
What damage desires
Anatomy—musculature
To fragment, puncture,
Lacerate? Here white thighs
Suggest the word Slur: curving
A phrase to completion—
Yet the poem descends to
[ Here the paper burnt ]curl
Hung in curl, damp[ And
Here the paper deteriorates ]
And the body of the poem
[ The paper gets worse ]
Having what mouths
[ Holes ]cannot forgive
Him the elegy[ and here
The paper ]plexus[ between
Fingers ]pubis[ whispers
Please ]chiseling the kiss
Engraving desire with cuts
inside