resembles an argonaut: that creature
that lives in the sea and takes her prey
and drives poison through a kiss
do not fear: it is a slow kiss the kind
remembered for years to come after
death has settled in with a turn of a
suburban key: in bed will be your wife
un-lost, safe, so safe you hunger: not
all women are lost: some are kept safe
go and fetch such a simple woman: or
come: find me among the tides of the
subtropical earth inside slivers of shells
