Anatomy of Lust

i.

the red room
of my body
the pain that rattles
me with sparking

a prick of
blood on the tip
on the tip
a prick
blood pricks
the tip of
the prick on a tip
of blood
the blood
the tip of
of of

ii.

What part shame,
the anatomy of lust?
What part humiliation?
What part exposure?
What part transgression?

What part chthonic impulse?—

Bet Persephone got just a little bit wet
toward the end of summer,
and Hades
on her mind.