~Poetry by Eric Tenneson~
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BLOOD

What 
More ache than 
The blood already shows 
What 
More longing than 
The blood already knows 
But you bleed and bleed and 
Nothing grows 



SHE WALKS LIKE DEATH

Pounding ribs
I will close her shut
Someday I will make her love me
We dance close enough to feel the sweat in our eyes
I'd love to swim in her black liquid
She slowly kicks and I'm lost in her legs
What language does she speak
Why can't I hear her more
What keeps flying around the room
It darts inside my head and bites
It sucks on my insides and provokes me
I wonder how she looks with her knife
Would she enjoy getting behind my skin
My friends have gone, there's no one beside me
Is my devotion enough of an offer
I know what it's like to be different
But I have my fun
I spank the sun and make it set



UNDER STONE

I think upon the death of God and grin
I feel the salty tickle
Keep me from the hungry light
I walk among the ants

Give me the sting of glass
I have sculptor's hands
I wrap my wounds in silk

My head peels slowly
Under stone

Festooned with honey
I give birth
To worms



UNRAVELED SPELL

Through these cold halls I unravel my spell
When my claws numb with ice becomes the time to strike.
I can see my fierceness drain from me.
Your limbs would taste nice tonight,
But you make no screams.
Your slit eyes make me desire to be bound to no one else.
Before I could split your back, you gave me your dream-
	"The pearly moon oversaw with blood filled sky,
	seven sad stars hissing longingly,
	but the silver fish flew onward above the sea.
	Flying forever the fish knew of constellations.
	Flying forever the fish shook the moon's face."
I gnashed on my spiky tail with pitiful delight.
Your dream bubbled my thoughts with such lovely grease.
The way you curled around my loathsome tongue inspired me.
I kept just one of your eyes and let you go.
Vigilant in my watch with your eye in my grasp,
I set myself to keeping you alive and free.
I shattered all your mirrors and closed your doors,
No one was ready to witness your splendor.



LORD OF WYR

Finding that flesh sometimes splatters
The Lord of Wyr revels in the scarlet hiss
But more savory thrills lurk
Culled forth from the brain
Tangled around his jagged tongs
Gray, fatty memories ripe with sincerity

With obsidian skin and an oversized eye
The Lord of Wyr demands civility
While restrained he expects a peppered smile
Unless you wish for less tender care

Capricious as the Wyrian storms
The Lord of Wyr often stumbles on how to proceed
With myriad tools and vices with teeth
How best to make you seethe with unclean treats
You can ride his wheel of skin, taste his ripping thorns
You can be pumped by a smoldering ichor
Making your hide turn green
You are just another bone decorating his halls



HUBRIS 2003

White sun freezes
Your rubber hands
Need me

Stain and devour
Pulled so tightly

Defiantly vanquished
Fevers drip down my skin

I experiment with eyes and shaving

Relax into the manifold
Drool your words into rust
Numbing from the mechanized vigilante
Gripping the stitches
Obnoxious as a door
All about feeling
Inside the sheath to please and please
please please please
please

Eternal

Cure



CEREMONY

Azazel eats all your flies 
Banished in canyons 
You long for a Rake 
To rip off your rags 
And devour your scent 

Folding and teasing 

You grow your beard down 
You're as hard as hooves 
Mash the earth flat



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