Heart Wing - Smith

SUBSUME

I want to become vast,
huge like a dragon curled around a mountain,
enormous and invisible against the sky

and tiny, so tiny,
infiltrating the interstices of your flesh,
invisible among your myriad corpuscles

and yearn to become multitudes,
to be a buzzing crowd, crazy
like bees, becoming all humanity

infinitesimal as a dust mote,
a million dancing sparkling specks,
become all the dust of Earth

So vast, I cup round planets in the palm of my hand,
bounding and rebounding off frantic atoms
thick and dark and transparent as the starlit night

I want, I ache, I obsess
to consume you, subsume you, become you
comprehend you
to envelop the universe,
shrinking to nothing at all.

Geoffrey Landis

 

DIG

I want to deconstruct the you
that lies
before me, an enigma
stone-faced and silent

try to reconstruct the you
that cried
in my arms last night

I want to peel away your
flesh, strip down skin
and connective tissue

release the you I'm sure
lurks beneath the outer shell

I want to dissect your muscles
from their insertion points,
stretch
them out like taffy

identify and isolate the strength
that wrapped me, held
me, made me weak

I want to drain the hot blood
from your elastic vessels
measure it, weigh it, quantify it

expose the emotion
that surfs it like a wave

I want to untangle the complexity
of your nervous system
those threads
of digital hair

brush away the dust
of accumulated fears, sweep past
the years of neglect and loneliness

I want to
dig
dig
and dig

until I've uncovered the ivory roadmap
of your bones
I want to make them speak to me

want to stroke
the ridges of your skull
with my thumb, probe your hollows
with my questing tongue
taste your hidden truths

and discover answers
in the dirt

Dianne Borsenik