Chicken Lips

It illuminates the heart for a speck of an era,
blindingly so
and is
sealed tightly in a jar of formaldehyde
Poisonously safe,
it is
a mask unto itself.

Arresting beauty
caged like a bird
singing her song of flight
it is
talon gripped truth.

Lend a sensual ear
to hear

the oceans cool melody
whispering
on a distant shore.
lapping and whipping
grains of sand to arrive

on earth,
a perverse universe.

Love fades
sometimes