Interrogation

When you have me as I'm standing

Against a wall, my sex becomes

Suddenly agnostic; strange new words

Slip out, your name mentioned twice.

This is not a careful time.

These bodies that have collected love,

That have closely followed the goals

Of line or curve, are becoming

Sentimental. We wander in and out

Of each other's mouths. I keep thinking

You're asking me something. Light

Pours in, hangs like a valuable stone above us.

I lose words remembering to speak.

You press into my skin for veins, finger

By finger, your eyes blank and glazed.

My eyes start to empty too, become

Exactly like yours, until all there is

Is a heart, each beat rendering the last silent.