Béatrice Machet # 13 for the Something Series

# 13         For the something series 

Fire in their bellies

        to connect with a swallowed universe 

                             stars to look up     to look down to look

                                                                                                   all around

                                                                                    flames 

                          you want them burning for billions of years 

                               and it’s not hell and it’s not paradise

                     it’s a love mutation  through inconsolable hunger

                                               something  spilt something 

           that would have split me open

                                something raw to be roasted 

                                   something matured and ripened

                                               a fruit of some sort 

                                                 a hollowed  flesh 

                                            a new born loving start

                                        a slanting light racing across

                                     us 

                                         driven mad

                                                              moon oriented

                                                    illuminated

                                   everlasting fire 

                     in their immortal

                                                     bellies