Underneath

to dismantle my body 

inch by inch

peel off my skin

unline each muscle 

break every bone.

to carve you into my flesh
lay down a lining of you.
 
to dissolve you into my blood
imbibe each layer of my being.

with a scalpel  

slice each nerve
splice into each a vestige of you
till all of me is rife
with a thronging
of you

and leave it there. 

this heap of flesh 

stay in the earth
smashed into a pulp 

reduced to a red and purple ooze 

and bones of me 

flakes turn into dust 

and shimmer in the haze

lay ground beneath your feet.