unresearched birth control methods the woman's voice de-scales me like a halibut & peels back the skin in search of eggs. every planet is hatch-able if it found the right crook to mother it. i am warmer than i've ever been. i sit on the back stoop & swallow obsidian to protect against futures. i'm testing new modes of evasion. i cut doors in my wrists for the worms to wriggle their way out. i used to try to stop loving prolific boys but i've given up & resolved to make a knot of my body. i put a string in his mouth & say pull harder. use the spoons to spill my guts like the ripe inside of a mango. save the monsterous seed. hold in my mouth. teeth like church steeples. every seed can be swallowed no matter how thick. dig a whole to fill with rinds. he holds my hand like a necklace throat. i cross my fingers to keep myself safe. often i pray into family members purses & steal quarters from the walls. there is nothing holy about fearing vessels. my water bottles grow danger. ten fingers. ten toes. a new fist rising from the lake's early spring murk. blue the mother away with a tuning fork. my voice can shatter any profession of love & leave my in the ambiotic fluid. he didn't understand what i meant when i said i am the pistil. he gets to just perch & look like a good wasp-killer. we must both be barefoot. he must close his eyes & forget i am just a jar of thimbles. he will prick his finger. did i say thimbles? i meant needles. the water is stocked for the season. take a net to the shore & sift for children. name them all after me but leave me out of it. tell them their father was a conch shell or a comet. i'll pass over in 200 years just to tell them i'm not sorry at all. the chickens get up & move to the field leaving their eggs to chill & sleep. in the field they feast on remnants. he drives home without a beak.