YGGDRASIL
WILLIAM EMERY
at winter’s end restraints
crumble like salt like snow
a bonsai white knuckled
into a thin seam of soil
unbuckles unburdens the roots
fractal the branches’ breadth
pyrite cum across granite
synapse bright and nerve wet
there is a cock beneath my cock
a cunt above my cunt
the pubis mound of earth the mirror skin
yggdrasil taut from my asshole to my eyes
a progenitor of metaphor an immigrant
to the salt white shores of your room my fist
against the nervous welcome
in the heather of your hair
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