La Gioconda by Caroline Bracken
Insatiable carnivores devour you, Dissect limbs, lines, light, Compare the incomparable To mortals. Speculate on your capture, Snap you. Query the market price, Like a cow at a mart. Obscene carnal greed retches Under the veneer of Reverent tones. Unseen, present, surfacing, Suffocating. Hold it. Don’t move. Keep steady. A line between your eyes and mine, Invisible, Accept it, Obsidian to Emerald, No one knows save me. Carnelian light hot Overhead. Noisy gibberish Assaults delicate membranes. Allow my look love the Yellow bones of you. Return The favour, see This frame draws you in, Hematite surrounds this Black dog. Crystal laser Works a hammer, fails Cupped cheeks true gaze, Through shutters sated.