yesterday, tomorrow or...

I am conquerer and days unnumbered,
dew-filled and june-heavy in the hollows
of your cat-eye throat, earthquake lovely,
sinking canyons in bent knee, ivory tongue.

I am gypsy and wing-boned thief,
elephant queen, glassy-eyed nightmare,
rancid with thought in the city streets,
vagabond empty, eyes wide open.

I am revolution and borderland riot,
cat-green bonfire, curly haired tyrant,
treetop runaway, burningburningburning
and above all lost.

I am flesh and bone,
patron saint of miles and miles and miles
yellow tongued and inversely proportional,
dark-eyed androgyny.

I fall asleep under my bed.
Monsters don't dare enter here.