more stanzas for lilith

it’s all in the form of en-
 gagement one
 prefers over other:
it’s said
 in this
 mo you meant a con-
tract your meat 
us stretched su-
pine on tight-
 tucked sheets (if we
 could see in ultra-
 violet – what intimate) your cleft
 a broken not com-
plete horizon
 the x every-
 one’s signature
 above. re

how he were ached for he
 -r bene-
diction
how she never ran short of 
 wholly
 water ab-
solving him of the distance 
 his skin
 (itself impelled) 
felt 
implied.

lilith in fish
 nets
 two 
 mouths gaping
month to month.

him in business
 suited.

faithless child having

found he
never was

seeking her. your demotic kiss a quest
ion (of) cont®acts
eclipsed by other moons
 you move still
 the bloodtide
your weighty body swaying
 over womb & cradle
baring your open wound
 a time told in its
accustomed invisibility

dark mater  un
mothering un
birthing

wastrel child you wander with
 in nigh
(in naught) 
tstreet dim welcoming with blackly
iridescent pinions
 the children birthed
 at birth to flesh.


























you are all
 mothers for
 saken 
by fathers un
 able 
 to shoulder
the adamic inversion

it was you i always
 stood as mirror
 for saying “yes,
mother, you
 look beautiful
 in that dress.
mother, no
 you don’t
 - that print 
doesn’t make you -
 look fat.
mother, yes
 that stone
 earth fired
to bone, what
 you, father, left. 
that stone.
wear it.”

there was no
 stone in your story
 i know but
that you were born of
as he was
 as we were
 of you.