Even with ten thousand
electric tongues
I could not have reached that one spot,
that pinking chamber
and embedded source of ache
which reminded me
time and again
of my own intimate relationship
to distance,
and how I’d binge on empty space
like a Zen cannibal
with a bloodlust for the sate
and sweet tease of nothing,
how I’d enter you,
to find me, alone,
dreaming of the deepest
most impossible pinks
by which to merge
immeasurably.