Phage



red membrane between skull and skin,
rubbed raw with spice, sex-tired looped and trapped, recursive

the string stretched twang a square wave erupts from the root
ethylene
polyethylene
a ring of red shells,
a moebius strip of hot dollars and
pupils sewn behind red rims, a slippery wolf tongue

square patch
square patch
square patch
pill-cutter and melon-seed lather splitting the
last pincushion crust of crushed squares,

lastly, cooling the membrane with perpendicular breaths.


 - G. Meister