something

i want to keep singing “something”

tender buttons are something

rich something, for example

a slick of skin is lush

w/  undone hush

or tucked in flush ribbon

red as eros’ head

i dance with earthbound feet

that’s something

i made it here to be

that’s something 

priests would cyanide spit out something

but their myths don’t ring true 

like we do

this sidewalk mica shines

that’s something

you're wrapped in lover’s arms

that’s something

you calling out my name

that’s something

i embrace the traces made

of what this isn’t

so that i may beam and beam

into a petalled sea of something