blue flames gridlocked - dragons birth - in a cove of fountain and large trees, he keeps her bare like the skin of avenged thorns, the flames have aligned to the blast of a howling galaxy it is time to bring her alive - many lovers - but one with release; she slakes his jaw, a mutable corpse organs banish his veins, creepers coil his residue, her love intense like heat in a dragon's egg - birth is without labour, she pecks on their shells the way his teeth fall, outside is a glow-burst tower; the candles crawl to him - ghost lovers - charmed pendulums dangling over his body, his skull watches her slithering to him, agile like amiable trail of fire, she of many concubines, his room of dragons, nymph fork- tails; their eyes wild berries, blue streams on smoke- limbs - the way he comes alight - they watch as she mounts First appeared in Ladies of Horror flash project