“You’ll Never Know How Upset the Daisies”
A kiss masks a wish for frozen stars
we’re upright fish purloining velvet suits
our sweet suckers, kisses for all who care: criminals, wishing to be beaten
in foxgloves and furs
picture this under Delilah’s orchestra
and the enchanted chandelier
gullets of the deep devour:
through a deep and horrible love
wider than spread eagles
a torturer: the soul of divine honey hives
please cook us in a breakfast
of wide-eyed parrot legs
before we walk the plank sideways
candles eaten in telepathy
where a moon can hum
the paste of snowy footprints’
light in blame and resentment,
my friends
the residual showers of sparks,
my friends
these sparks of joy:
my only friends.
nicholauspatnaude 
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