Ink Drinker

I feel the fires stoking

blasting me in waves

bathing in the radiation

absorbing your daytime energy

heat within me simmering

incubating words till risen

every time lips part to form words

they escape, ethereal

invisible to physical eyes

ᝰ.ᐟ🫙🪶📜🪶🫙ᝰ.ᐟ

previously unnoticed

by lens-deprived ocular devices

a bottle labeled 

"Drink Me"

black and viscous

I instantly recognize

the contents

black gold

INK

ᝰ.ᐟ🫙🪶📜🪶🫙ᝰ.ᐟ

silky smooth

cool on the tongue 

yet a fire brews 

bitter in the belly

thoughts turning to words

knocking about and rioting

congregating and igniting

ᝰ.ᐟ🫙🪶📜🪶🫙ᝰ.ᐟ

Expelling an incandescent cloud 

eating up the oxygen

digesting the air between us

emitting black shining letters

tinkling to the page

in the wake of my 

cleansing breath

sprinkling in a symphony of

fiery fairy wings 

flapping, hands clapping

a chaotic chorus

caught like a spark on the

westerly wind

ᝰ.ᐟ🫙🪶📜🪶🫙ᝰ.ᐟ

Rebuilding reality 

in the image of 

our intentions

I hear you cheering on 

my phrase-shaping tricks

as the stained flames

crawl and lick at

my tingling fingers 

tickling them

inciting my syntactical 

snacking as I self-consciously

swipe dripping pronouns 

from my smudged

satisfied lips

ᝰ.ᐟ🫙🪶📜🪶🫙ᝰ.ᐟ

The shape of your

hand drawn mouth forming the

maddened sounds

of my scorching sayings

sends shivering excitement

up the center of my

dye-drenched being

saturated in preparation

for the perfect 

plume

ᝰ.ᐟ🫙🪶📜🪶🫙ᝰ.ᐟ

Two distinct forms combine 

converging before my

blackened eyes

dancing dragons

drawn from the stretched 

ink strands warping

forming in the span between

double-spaced lines

strings trailing back

to the corners of my

painted smile

ᝰ.ᐟ🫙🪶📜🪶🫙ᝰ.ᐟ

Letting the words flow forth 

spewing in acid streams 

transforming the terrain 

of my ink-stained life 

Relieving the burden 

of amber-trapped dreams

K.B. Silver