Rhetoric

You are a fallacy.
Semantic and etymological meanings?
They don't apply to you.
You are the caesura in my line, I trip--over you.
An illusion of allusion, colloquial subjectivity
Your name is cryptic
Your words are polyvocality...

My syntax is confounded.

Curl

"Curl up with me" she said.
I follow my hand, led by her grip.
My fingers falter,
I close my eyes.
I am crying but at least--
at least I have purpose.

Intrigue

Intrigue me.

Intrigue me with your essence.

Cloud my skyline with your fog, ripple my surface with your rain.

Come into me, shelter yourself within the fortress of my rib cage.

You are safe here.



Leave me.

Leave me at the crossroad.

Turn around and walk the other way, bring your tide in from my shores.

Take the trap door, leave in the night, escape my siege.

There is no escape.



I am a trap, springs loaded, chin up, shoulders back.
Freckles.

Slouched against the wall watching.

Magnetic.

I am a blowtorch, not an extinguisher.
I will drive you crazy, engulf you in flames.
Your coal,
Your ash,
My fire.