creature

the skin cracks at the
ridges of the bones
and muscles twist and pull

tendons detach and split
open as the bones in my
back ripple and push

forward and upwards
skin becomes like lizard
hide and fingernails

blacken and teeth filed
down as bared and jagged
eviscerators of all life

chest ripped open
and sides split down
as arms reach out below

arms that existed already
like mad hindu gods
eating the world

eyes slit and quicksilver
color pupils stare into
the night around me

as the air bleeds into my veins
and the stars' greasy light
covers my mephitic sweat

as i form into something
less human than beast
and more creature

from dark and oily
origination and from where
i do not know


-kmt
©2008