Synonyms for a Thing Without a Name

Synonyms for a thing without a name

Blooming were the flames of that fire 

Nitrous air shifting heat to ash in my mouth 

Long were eyelashes clouding eyes 

Weighted with swelling of the brain 

Yet crystalline and cold 

A calling from across a matrix of words

Words spilt from wet mouths and warm whiskey 

A clandestine, holy lapse of time in which whispers 

Crackled like the sheaths of burning wood 

Yet held in fermenting silence 

Hunger built and gnawing 

The blood of a woman but the veins of a girl 

Cast in rusted iron over hidden glass

A shower of secrets to cleanse the pus and the gore

Yet silver strands to weave space for the weeping

Callouses cracked by absorbent caress 

Shadows of torment melting and creeping

Caught fireflies from an open crypt 

The living meat salvaged from rubble crumbling 

Yet blowing shreds of life between brittle ribs 

Fire drowned in gasoline 

Mouths yawning as a gift to the other 

Eyes bearing burdens beheld and unceasing

Brain fluids diluted with sleep and apple cider

Cold are the sweeping winds and cat’s tongue impatient 

But the down keeps warm and pillow talk creeps in comfort and bliss.