CONSUMPTION

Give me Tokyo, Cairo, Bangladore.

I starve! Too, all seas live and dead

A thousand small planets and their lurid stars.

For I am Consumption,

monster knit of numberless black holes.

Ocean, you bastard, chameleon!

Earth, sky, traitors all --

offering your least to my lust.

No matter. Fling me fattened children,

their innocence a raging engine's oil;

I am all steel phallus

romancing lightning in violated fields.

In a blink I appropriate whole galaxies.

Run everywhere

Batten all doors,

Summon the saviors of wide windows

Fools! What is terror but one more gyration

On the fat-axissed finger of God?

 Copyright painting and poem 2008 Julianza Shavin