Find credence
reading bloodstones
for contradictions immutable.
Crash and condom insolute,
fingers at my neck
teetering & inscrutable.
Magic & fire locking horns,
paint this body
the tireless color of salmon
diving pink into the red.
Spawning eggs
on banks of gravel,
scandalously high!
as a mountain of death –
Love is weather,
love is the sea
tide in, tide out
chasing currents
for odds, insurgent?
restive as the sky.
Riven to a cross –
it leaps, it stalks!
paradoxically loath and sly.
Born at sea,
both horn & fly.
Swaged in along
the wind whispering edge
sheer & taunt –
to a brush,
catchwork rent & nigh.
The run up – a fatal rush!
foraging rapids
fatty red flesh, jaw & eye.
Thor tapered tails
horn & stray,
by polar magnet & sun.
Obliquely honed
to smell where smolt,
& a wilding crazy run for it.