Tape

Layered adhesive orbits a crown-

My baby’s in gold,

The world’s upside down.

Illusory taste in a bridge, on a hook-

Hellfire and flood,

The road we both took.

Dangling apple,

Caught in your eye-

O, Love behind glass,

Show me how to lie.

For you, I’d do anything-

My rarest of bloom,

In a house, in a heartbeat,

A switch in a tomb.

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I tangled you up,

In tongue and embrace-

In feathery fanfare,

In truth with no face.

Play with your letters,

Let me hang from your lip-

Bite that tongue harder,

And tighten my grip.

Gift wrap your baby,

Secure Her with rope-

Concealing flesh tender,

And cellophane hope.

Remember, though, baby,

And please don’t forget-

The door, Nevermore,

And ‘Thou shalt not’ w(r)it.