“Light is the most difficult burden / to bear. When the voices of my fear / are louder even than the fire of / my loaned fury which…”

“Every desire I follow leads to / you, my spirit the substance on / which your fire acts, how something / that you want you must forget / sits…”

“Left-handed Solomon eyeing Baʿal writing-off ancestral / wrongs, how strong their ambidextrous pull / when death’s pallor sets in, guiding / my hand toward oblivion, a beast / of…”

“Fast-acting fetish, trashy as the blasphemy / of tearing up a phonebook, calling / on avowed heretic fanatics to fill / me in on my antics after / the…”

“Not until it is can / this pooling of love which / has been dripped by that / hooded head be called a / kiss, how its lightning runs…”