Rattlebone

I

can

feel it

redhot

shake your rattle

move your bone s

               nake-d

          alive tonight

          new skin

need room to move

shake shake shake

snake dance

drum beat

reach out

touch me

no rules

passed this door

I light a fire

and brand my flesh

bark peals

exposed

i mark my being

feeding on living

as the night evolves

II

hipsters

curve

witch-ways

along sins of flesh

open and giving they breed frenzy

sway in waiting

craving

i let them devour me

together

under the blanket of night

in the leaves

of the wood

they learn

my earth song

III

fires die

in suffocation

but stories survive

IV

what lost

in transformation

change

is absolute

unforgiving

V

without shame

your blushing face

red clearly

in moonlight

new lines

giving

shape

VI

return now

from the shadow

yearning

forget regret

embrass your passion

burning

with eyes of a newborn

Robert Hnasko