Polymorph Perverse
Possessed, I am a shining sedition of flesh
Spokes of a wheel engineered to an amphibious hub
The living, craving star, radiant in six directions
Open to every abundance since the first creature crawled from the trenches
I am Mobius strip of milky body and sbozzare excavated with gradina
Trailing strings of titian and mazarine LED in negative space
In your cube of lust you are Metatron how you pierce with slow, deliberate hands
The artist continues on under a sextet candelabra as the blind sense colors and shapes
With many teeth on the chattering windows, my rain courses down
You hold your heliotrope over my hungry mouth
Our shivering breath in the sable
It mixes
It’s frantic
but why not defined
Consider my answer when my lips wrap around your earlobe like a stygian staircase
Consider my love at your feet and yours at mine
Intertwining parabolas coaxed into insanity
Why does the world test its lovers?
You are a whisper that twisted me
A scream that changed me forever
You keep libraries of secrets between us that swell the Euphrates of my chest and belly
I will crest when clouds render into neon and zap the lower buildings to make us curious again
When our needs fuse and transform telepathic and hivemind
When memories hold color without leeching my own
I will crest when I shake from the magnetic fields of inner childhood
When we find the leylines among our barren stones
A Studio Sometime Last Night
A war helmet sits on a Wurlitzer
A Klimt rests weary on its side
A butter-yellow metronome idles
A clock breaks at 11:35
A black chandelier intertwines with moose antlers
An inverted Volkswagen emblem foils a rusty pitchfork
A vaudeville clown figurine befriends a skeletal bird oddity
A lone baby grand reflects the dust of ages
An inflatable dominatrix pig holds a giant cigar
A plague doctor waves the American flag
Six guitars wait for the band to come
A caricature of Eisenhower watches a whittled ballerina
Men are in the stairs
Women are along the walls
They wait for the band to come
Savannah Manhattan is a trans author and poet in Los Angeles. She has two published poetry collections, short stories in national anthologies, and poems in various lit magazines. She also loves studying the occult and architecture.