Cliterature
 

Melissa Noelle Esguerra

thriving on animalistic desires only to find --


                        the focus of my gaze then, where your sternum rises to meet the dry air and skin permeates into bone do you fall into light, a certain calm and a certain shyness my body is bathed in indecency and i want nothing more than to absorb you, so wholly: find your scent between the whites of my eyes and the translucence of eyelid and eyelash did you find artery and vein under your nails when you felt me submerge myself into your being i wanted this to be a s e a n c e of all sorts, to find reveries of spirit and phantom as you plunge into me and feel fire at my centre as i melt like glaciers in summertime solstice at your touch( keep you here, keep you here always and nowhere else )there are depressions in my skin, your hands digging deep into dunes of breast and valleys of hip as petals part at your disposal do you consume me, taste as you please: honey from a maenad's lips and the body of blood of jesus christ or something and another so foreign and holy makes me shudder dirty sewer queen and mold in the crannies of your teeth(i’ve kept you here for so long have you forgotten what it is to b e )i breathed you in and felt yesterday's sweat form rivulets in my palms; broken bones and sprained fingers, my fingers find their way to that crevice of clavicle and shoulder where my tears once gathered and fell to form oceans of dismay( i crave to p e e l back your flesh, taste the muscle and sinew and let it collapse into me )

 

my hips rise and fall to the mechanical hush of old fingertips and old loves( need, crave, desire ) all the things i cannot have yet want so terribly i want to consume you whole b i t e your bones and take my lips and suck the marrow so that it stays in my mouth always live in my tongue like a parasite, bite the back of hand and it is the only thing that it reminds me that you are an illusory a p p a r i t i o n as cherries bleed into my mouth( oh to lose myself in you, lose myself always and nothing more ) blackberry puree down my legs(sorry so sorry)