Joanna Gilman Hyde

You “should” never have awakened Me

now I have a Truth to tell

A Truth to bite Its bitter way

each time I lie inside Your Mouth

A Truth I want so badly

never to be fed to You:

My Heart My Heart

My Ravenous Heart

knocked unconscious once

lies and lies through Its fangs

until You eat The Lying Truth

until You fuck What’s Left Aside

Hunter fuck The Rest of Me

kill this fierce-some Truth

I want Us to be Happiest

allowed to lie and lie and lie

I want You to be Greediest

allowed to chew and chew

Hunter lie with Me

to tell The Truth

It has no place with Us

make It sleep

with Your Soft Voice

Your Careful Careful Touch

make It die

My Lover My Killer

kill My stirring starving Heart

kill My Heart for Us

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excerpt from NO BONES ABOUT IT circa 1999