She ate furry trichomes
and fly agaric
from the cups
of flamboyant mushrooms.

She devoured rubies
of the finest persuasion
and emeralds
from the hearts of lizards.

She swallowed
diamonds drenched
in the aqua vitae
of extraterrestrial streams,

consumed spatulate
leaves of unknown origin
and incredible effect.
She graced the tasteless

crackers of the Host
with truffles and brie,
with fungal infestations
bred in the cellars

of decadent aristocrats,
washed them down with
nectar of absinthe
and sun-stroked afternoons.

She lived different lives
on other worlds,
vivid and varied as
her distended imagination.

She drowned diligently
in the inimitable
pleasures of bizarre taste
and visionary extravaganza.

Appeared in The Audient Void