what X-ray diffraction

or acid dissolution

say about the mineral

composition of your body.

cut up, science

shovels an eye & a tooth

into airtight ziplocs.

broken earth, you are

a strange specimen.

i see you bathed

in red & i imagine

pushing my fingers

deep into the night

of your abdomen,

to find every lost

root of every felled

tree pulsating.

you erode

into the dust of time.

red earth

i want to crawl

back into your womb

& sleep

in that steeped bed.