1. phoenix is a one-note bird.
2. that note is on fire.
3. bedside candle.
4. no paper no pen.
5. can’t write down dreams.
6. owl listens, omni-ambient headphones around omni-acoustical eyes.
7. odalisque your pillow is on fire.  lie down.  sleep.

tap tap, who will be beautiful, flesh sockets packed with black?

so beautiful, gnarled stick

the gods prize whose skin whose eye?

you’ll find time harsh because-of beauty

youth pulped, cored.

want seeds.  want soil.

[upper aside]: cracks melt smooth like wax

[lower aside]: blush flame, so beautiful.  balance ruin.

The phoenix burns billet-doux on my pillow.  Read the last one here.