{"id":273,"date":"2012-03-11T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/?page_id=273"},"modified":"2012-04-22T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T12:07:09","slug":"lover-cousin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/?page_id=273","title":{"rendered":"Lover – Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n

\n
\nLover-Cousin<\/strong><\/p>\n

My cousin
\nyour skin
\nshone back
\niridescent.
\nTiny scales
\nglinted
\nunder
\nthe sun’s
\nglaring continuum.<\/p>\n

I knew
\nI had
\nfound you,
\nfinally. <\/p>\n

My house,
\nmy body,
\ncleared of the
\npoison
\nshed it’s tired hide.
\nAnd underneath
\nwere tender
\nscales,
\nrainbow colors,
\nonly I could see.
\nOnly I had scales
\nI thought
\nuntil I saw you <\/p>\n

After you
\nsloughed off
\nthe needle
\ntracks
\nyour new skin
\ncame in
\nluminous
\nand your
\nreborn color
\nconfused you. <\/p>\n

Until you
\nfound me
\nmy lover-cousin.<\/p>\n

We sun
\nourselves
\nunder
\nloud whispers
\nand bold stares.
\nNow that
\nbroad daylight
\nwill not parch
\nor burn,
\nwe flaunt taboo.
\nKinship laws,
\nour people’s
\nhistory,
\nfailed us
\nin the making
\nof our old skin.<\/p>\n

So,
\nI will not
\ngive you up,
\nmy soul-cousin.<\/p>\n

Water
\nexhales
\nfrom our pores
\nat moon’s
\ndeliverance.
\nI smell
\nthe river bottom
\nin the mixing
\nof our fluids.
\nYou come
\nwith me
\nunder
\nto the calm,
\ndark mystery,
\nthe place-time
\nbefore the
\nburden of
\nlanguage.
\nWe are liquid.
\nWe are mud
\nWe revisit
\nuntil one of us
\nbursts the surface
\nfor air.
\nAnd we entwine
\nourselves,
\nand sleep.<\/p>\n

I could not
\ngo there
\nuntil I
\nfound you. <\/p>\n

We are water
\nfrom the same
\nsource,
\nwe,
\nchildren of
\nMissepishu,
\nchildren of
\nthat lesser
\npower-being.
\nWe are necessary
\noutcasts for our
\npeople’s glaring
\ncontinuum.
\nWe have to
\nlive out
\nthis
\nblessed curse. <\/p>\n

I will not
\ngive you up
\nmy cousin,
\nmy niciwakan.<\/p>\n

\n

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