Hurricane Season

Love comes ashore in a maw of purple swirling dark
disappearing in black belly center
thick ink mouth blowing down the sugarcane crop
marsh grass madness
bath salts stalks dancing electric wiggle

cumulonimbus love rips the shed roof off
tosses it into that hungry hellscape overhead
   you never see it again
hysteria howling heaven-sent
banging at maw-maw's shutters
ghosts worm willy-nilly through drywall cracks
cackling
coughing
love's relentless slaughter onslaught slavery
salacious same
same
salvation
pull'd the goddamn house apart
the comings and the goings
dead years of forevers
press your fingers into her flesh until the blood bone fingerprints
scream into that downturned gorge
smile like the dried leftover deer carcass
she doesn't care
she KNOWS
love pilfers
love breathes
falls heavy
love drowns lovers

love destroys all
and 
everything in its path

all
and
everything is left broken

eventually.

TA