velvet wraps, climbs
your legs in search of
fodder water life subsistent drive

you feel, consider
yourself alone on your
maiden voyage outward to the sound

it grows, collects
the air as you
dissolve into the liquid of your hopes

you drape, adorn
yourself in more
murderous finery each time you're left

silks abrade, submit
to the touch of
your wandering fingers, lost in their folds

and you, yourself only
tunnel deeper into
their sustaining breaths when your face

falls anew