Far Beyond The Fear of Dreaming

---lord, I bare away this blushing soul
---devoid of salvation's trusty tatter-wrappings
---to please my new and tender fire
---mixed of maple and the wasting worms

---with paper sky-wings shifting up and Adam, rise & shine
---up and up and out toward perfect seas of clean blue sky
---I am fast falling into arms of questing slumber's hold
---just beyond my flesh and caring bones I'll give it all away

---come press your mouth against my eyes
---my dreams taste like absinthe and atomic star shine
---and I have no shame to give today,
---just velveteen and ambergris...

---feather beds and fingers careful pressing into giving skin
---I'll be your Magdalaina, darling,
---the Lilith-Aphrodite-Eve, Persephone your Hester Prinn
---red lettered and voodoo dolls tied inside long black skirts,

---to drag just behind my feet like wedding bells
---calling to my vultures, to the pixies and flies

---casting out wide spirals, daisy heads and fairy wings
---and you'll draw the curtains and then douse the lights

---I'll cover up my heart of gold and open my all-seeing eye
---to pull the covers over my head and pretend that you're not there

---for I'm far beyond the fear of dreaming
---and the absinthe makes me oh so weak

---ready now for the tender burning
---far beyond the fear, all blushing soul and wasting worms