ORIFICE By Celine Man

Bone black under flesh
 Floating, falling
A silence that is only true in dark
 Whose edges will, dissipate
In slivers of moving skin

They burned off your flesh
to get to the bone
The pure white

They kept your mother
But they stuck you back inside

In the rosy light
A rippling lustre
Seeps, into green earth
 Refining the dawn
 Raining speckles of gold
Sinew, down the spines
Of all that live
 in the path of rose
See the vermillion
 for it’s one brief brushstroke

In the red of dusk,
In the revenant distance
Dissonance,
In raspberry
Ruddy Scarlet
Sky

It must be the morning
For the face,
Faces,
For the lead-tin yellow
 To be more than metal
For the bathed bodies
 to have a chance to know each other
For the chair to sit in raw umber
For black, to sit in, wait,

For the bathed body
To be metal
Lead face
For to know each other
Sit   in   wait
For
For

Worn by your hands, my hands
 Our hands.
  This is my orifice
   Your orifice
and I pass it through my hands
 to appease my eyes
Have I poured enough out
I will not settle for less than a storm
I have never been a drizzle
 I have never seen you in sunshine
I left my fingers, in the ripples of the paper
        But it is not the same as stitching folds of lace
because I don’t know, if it’s pretty

My eyes
My hands
My orifice
A storm
I have never seen you.
Worn.
ripples… Settle.
I have never seen you.
Lace folds
Stitching your orifice
I have never seen you.

The lemon is sour, unchanged
Though why is, all else untouched
  remain, in refusal of ruin
as the cold embrace of porcelain
  begins to feel warm
she doesn’t eat
                                    any of it
                            And they lie
                              Until time devours them, poised to poison
                            without looking
                              Because it cannot

                           The split one, is the first to ivory

else,   touched
In    refusal
In    lie
Ruin as em brace
She doesn’t
She doesn’t
Poised without looking
Split to
Sour
It cannot
Remain
Is all
Any of
it
warm.
Ivory
warm.

Why?

I’ve left the window open
  I’ve let the air touch your face
And the billowing curtain
is, far too elegant, and golden
  as are the fruit
       Nothing is ordinary

I’ve left the window open

                                  an Orifice

And they do not see
the envelope, on the chair
and the address, I wrote for you
because it’s not
                        for them.

Your face
too Elegant, Golden
Nothing
I’ve left the window open
I let the air touch your face
             They do not see

                           An orifice

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  White world.

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