animating the corpus
Trinity Chapa

the meat of my heart says no.
but you shook me from quiet
and my sexuality
is only
viable in a vacuum.

fearsome shy & somehow
depraved enough to believe.
skirtin round the dirt
animating the corpus--
you ate my of
now i am free / /
possession’s no thing
in the land of thee!

i give you this coin
“legal”
“tender”
a very bad girl says she loves
you.

chèvre of the very
bad girl. a kiss
only works
if you

close your eyes.
                          i will tell a story you like.
it will be about the first
time i skinned
an animal.
how still i remember
the jewel of blood
my fingers and their
shaking
            a body’s
hum.

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