venus shut your fly trap
your slickened leaves have teeth
to clamp the exoskeletons
and suck the life from them

i know better than to trust
you and your offered self
standing pure and nude
on tongue of pearly
vomiting clam

i will away

some edge
on some world
i will find
will find me
frozen in dark shade
of silver caveless cliff
to know who i am
wholly
apart