At bottom sits
jokers wild
bloodbird & riddled

curmurrings 
luring dissimulations

smoke me out.
Violently, how now 
my heart opens

glomming 
for torch
spun & rattling

into your arms
my bloodguilty throat.

Boxed-in
by fury of love
niggling and chuff

green eyed 
& the bluff!

Maungy rough stuff.
Wily beguily
my hook of psalms.

Poached or coached
on the sly,
semiservile caroms.