https://cinnabargirls.bandcamp.com/album/refined-man-of-the-underworld
olive trees burning out not a second thought
know i’d eat what i’ve cooked if you’d say i won’t
resting up by a bleed of your vinaigrette
in your space i’m the harvester and harvest
guts of menelaus’s wife for a start
launch a thousand faces off your brand of port
would’ve been sure enough let you ride on in
off your prime i’m the harvester and harvest
beakless the birds beat on hornless oxen
who stomped off the bronze from your husband’s ring
now i’m the harvester and harvest
where tendons change and marrow washes,
vestal blood has upward drained
the air cries yellow, walls of flesh
i see your face inside her face
ten thousand years they spent on love songs
only mine sustains
and swinging chattel bleeds their debt,
i read your name inside their names
(you got that, i know your name, ishtar, inanna)
