flicker

you flicker
like the wet sheen  
in the head down
fire earth growl of the jaguar's  
gaze, I am a fleet creature of the night,  
flight-of-prey machine gun    
heart fear-firing against my ribs,  
and should flee from  the clawing  
hunger that will stab the tender flesh  
of my defenses, but wanting more,  
than my own blood to flow forever,
leap toward death, to the devouring
lust of your truth-beauty soul-seeking  
word-spilling luscious-delicious if there  
is a god she got these o so right let  
me paint them every night  
of my life in the deepest red lips