way back at the beginning of time
all reality except us was a cold corporate hallway
and her body was my daily bread
we made the trees shout
before her I’d been doomed to write
what had never happened
then she smashed in through my windows
and suddenly
everything we touched
turned to history
and mostly we touched each other.
in sheets of ice, under bloody rainbows,
we embraced around our hipbone campfire
and fashioned our own myths:
I was her favourite villain,
Snake kissing Eve after the Fall
but to me
she was the one who slithered
and reflected in her eyes,
a thousand times bigger than life,
was all the flaming 21st century