Litany of Desire - Staceyanne Chin

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Litany of Desire
Staceyanne Chin

Her body is a litany of desire
And I
Wrap them frail around
My body
Ribs striped and stretched
Toward healing
grotesque
beautiful
these sores
I carry them
fingers sticky and heavy with exactitude
I flay the muscled sacrament
with wine
and water
and bread
and worship
I want you
litany
like bleeding
like a fire fanned open
like my legs
insistent
like fate
like salt
like memory

tell them to me
your stories
tender to the touch
this
is waht I have always wanted
from you
the cracked edge
of what has
just
begun to harden
I want you
against time
and revelation
and beds too far away
I want you wanting me
clothed in the absolution
of fangs and forks and fucks we shouldn't have
I want you
buried in the belly of blind belief
like Jonah
like apostle
like Mary
and Joseph
like God
I want your spirit
made flesh
within me
frail
and futile
I want to follow you
broken ground you
sound you
hoarse from the flick
of this foreign tongue
like mud
and martyr
and mornings without sun
I want to quiet you
like quick
like cunt
like hollow
like whole
--I want to hold you
holy
like prayer
like benediction
like intercession
like hallelujah, like hallelujah,
like hallelujah
like amen.