Rape Me

The inshredding heat

eyes like teeth and teeth like prows my net too small and the fish too barbed the gills become eel and the eel a squid tentacles of breath and tongues of kisses wrapping over and into and out of me thrusts of stinging needles and snipsnip scissors till I am on fire inside my body like the spewing rice pot frothing onto the flames

I remember the smells the spoiling flowers heaped behind the temple the musk of the goats and urine of the sows the gift-milk for the gods now souring behind the lotuses the sticky purples of the banana flower tied so it will drip sweet juice but not open the plumeria’s drunken poison the helioconia’s smell like my drunken father’s this one breathes like my father

Gods Subsist on Roads of Kill

the next moves like my father my father, my father they all look like my father he was the first now he’s all the rest.

Daughter this is my duty

It’s in the Rg Ved Sister this is my due

Now I know why my mother when my father demanded of her choked and shriveled and held back her breath till as soon as he was done left the door beads clicking in the night, why at the well she splashed herself splashed and splashed again again, again and she cursed which she never othertimes did I understand now why she spat on the earth so often so much.