Castrated Fate

like the blood rushing within the hollows of spiny bones
or roots wayfaring to waters where they have expanded and grown
like groundfish that sleep at Mona’s benthic feet
or the existence of wild, undomesticated wheat
like the solar systems of distant stars
or when music was a tongue, not money contained in bars
like the brilliance of the red giant and the vortex of black holes combined
and sand moving through water, suspended then falling, untangling of vines

You and I
connected one hundred lifetimes.
impregnated dormant seeds sprout in a storm of sorrows
and kismet slashes gash the walls of spoiled diamonds
energies conjoin for karma cradles
butterflies. Cocooned within future lover’s guts
speculation paints sanity astray
behind hat boxes filled with rumors,
crimson dressed memories and cold shoulders
a castrated fate, drawn and quartered,
hangs in the closet’s midnight corner