burn her name
by: poetic abortion (1/7/06)

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her
name
on
your
skin
burns
it
to
ash

you are
in the
garden (again)
and eating
an Eve-
addicted apple
her name
on your
tongue (acid
bubbling within
your throat)
is poisonous

BURN her name
(from your: skin/
tongue/heart/mind/
lips)

the snake grinning, kissing
the soul of your
Achilles heel you break
the skin with your
broken-tipped arrow grinning: