Lightning in the Night

The violence! of desire! whirlwinds shrieking in my mind
I was revived by your eyes on fire
Voltage across that ravenous darkness
I lived like lightning in the night
Surviving in the stifling eventides
Your eyes on fire, I memorized—
Shriker! in the sanctuary of streetlights!
It was your VOICE IN THE WHIRLWIND
striking like lightning in the night:
Veronica,shrink before desire, that bright violence is rising!
The euphoria! of your voice! a whisper in the void!
I lived on cloud nine like lightning in the night
even in the moonrise monastery of the universes adamantine
Who am I in that ravenous dark? Humans are made from the trash of stars
What a wasteland, I was tarnished by desire
Your eyes on fire, I memorized in the midnights
I arrived scintillant in the starlight like lightning in the night —
Cyclones gyrate on the jacaranda roads
Dormant stars fall to ravenous darkness
Memories ofdesire burned like survival in me
The cursed furnace of sunrise arrived sanguine
Morning light is precarious fire
I waited and I waited for your radiant arrival
Restless evenings under the skies starless seas
The brutality! Desire screamed inside of me
I am a careless being when you witness me

Beloved, I wait for you in the deluge