Cyclically

This is natural

as good as the gap between keys

my gut feels full of bricks again

like brimming with things not to say

Instead, I dream

of stuffing dead fish with lychee nuts

the entrails snaked along a subway platform

we are two women sloshing fingers--

not to forget our nails--

"The f-train is coming!"

all this in honor of friendship, I will suppose.

Isn't stomach material so different

than the lizard skin

of these fruit; We pinch through

Con sus cascaras rosas y brillante

(too beautiful for mine)

these are more real to me than

you are real, now.

I wish I had squeezed

the fish carcasses to my chest

watching their rubbery eyes bulge.

And in fistfulls

pealed,

grape-ish and translucent

all of it in disguise, and then

I become digusting

over you

anyway.

Unsolved Mysteries was on Television

I remember eating grapes in the living room.  Hot skin stuck to iced marble, knees

scraping against rough granite unders.  The lights were dim and fogged and we did not sit

close together      just like you to watch only

because the most efficient parts of the story are the only parts.  And I counted myself: there were

twelve for "Cada uva significa un segundo" I often remember without remembering why

as one connects freckles on the insides of her

dimply skin pursed under examination:

memories come to me like bruises

purple, sore and warm.

Making things more mysterious, I think: is that what you wanted?

Also Known as Strawberry Fields

They are selling Strawberry Globe Amaranth

at the farmer's market on Saturdays.

I hunger to tell someone this;

think about shouting it over

the television voice

bubbling out about

God Knows

in the living room.

If someone would just

Lower the volume!

Bright flowers;

Spike/fuzzy ruby cubes--

Please,

I am looking for something

like the pigeons in our window box

when it's raining.

And if I kissed the screen

I would feel caterpillars whispering;

I want lips like the fuzz-flower strawberries.

Wouldn't one kiss me then.

Sweet crackers,

I put everything into my mouth!