Conventions Of Flesh (Plenty)

Dismantle this flesh, this bulwark of soul
Titillate earthen vestures, harbours of pain
Swollen with the ecstasy of their burden
Strip what remains with instruments of rage

Employ your moon-tapped fingers slowly 
Against my Jovian planet of fertile pulse
Disincarnate my innocence to nacre 
Supplicate the void until I compose you 

Offerings of strangled lambs, cut throat lips
I am obsessed to fulfill sonorous bounties
Inching along hooked smiles through veins
To the catacombs of man, the heart of a woman


Mason Betty, “Conventions Of Flesh (Plenty)” from Sallos

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