ANEMONE

First body: shape and form
from algae grown. Gesture
sprung from rock: a holdfast
that fashioned muscle, tissue, and nerve
into being, bringing movement
to this earth as animal.

Above you I hover, like a lover,
lulled by your luminance. Entranced
I draw near - not knowing I am
as good as dead and headed
into an embrace as sticky as candy
and lethal.

Anesthetized and awake,

you will take me
into death’s inflorescence,

and I will go

with eyes wide open.