Blood Brother

My brother puts his mouth on mine
and we become all too suddenly one
person

birth has never separated us.

At night he crawls into my bed, and
his whispers spread like heat over my
body: Lila, he croons, I love you.

I don't resist.

Open my body to the thickening between
my legs; his weight; his breath
down my throat.

His blood.
My blood.