Black Knife Through Heaven

Her shaded vault

A black knife through the heavens

Breached gravity

Helpless to starve

Her comet footed déboulés

Quickened to triphammer stun

The heavenward bullet

Of her sultry wrestle

With hiccuping zephyr

Sheeted in Hadean armoury

A black rainbow baptism

As her skin flakes to mist

Under nerves courting spark

Sluiced out from netted flesh

A blizzard of psalm freed from the dirge

The breathless crowd

Mounted butterflies

A riot of trilled charge

Hung on the untamable fever

Of her torrid romance with entombed air

Her crimson ribbons

Laced through a plot of ebony

A dewy tangle

After her broken swan bow.