ABASEMENT

Accosted by
matted eye
accusing tangle hair
heave blood soaked sigh
force rigid bone
itself to chilly bare
grind against resistance flesh
on night sweat cement floor

Confession forming
close caught throat
Snap, squirm,
gnash teeth in rage
Bite hand of hope
which salacious strokes
unconscious smutted
swollen face

St. Mary sees me
retch and bleed
deep in
a basement church