this luminous language of s(k)in
ancient and uninhibited consecration
across infinity in apparitions
of temporal incandesence
leaks light

Holy is how the bone conquers
the surrendering flesh, throbbing
radiant and electric with divine fire.

Burn into me
until I weep in tongues
every thrust
a visceral invocation

a longing and discontented
bead in my secret rosary

as I mouth deliberate
benedictions to the otherness,
an infidel breathing
your sacred and vast oblivion