Inspired by Dani California by Red Hot Chilli Peppers

still red and wild and dancing

under the Californian sun

high and dry and crystallised

my wolfsbane-tongue

my smoking gun

on my knees, begging for release,

yet: still red, still wild, still dancing

hot and heavy are the limbs that yearn

that cannot dig, but merely graze

the sunlit pools dry up

in flashes, fleeting,

breathless, shaky from the chase

still i spin, round and round

high and dry, burning out;

California’s ablaze

still red, still wild, still raging

within the hollow of my chest

as i meet your piercing blue gaze

paradise-knife, honeydew-steeped

the blade cuts away what’s numb

under, over my tongue; to taste

let life pour forth, and relish

the sweetness of the bleed

simultaneous release

let the warm rain come in waves

though tethered, finally freed

California, rest in peace

i surrender, on my knees, the searing sun

writhe, now, rather from rapture than from pain

to the beating pressure, final, endless

as it comes: that California rain

by deliberate hands, the separation of seas

we come to resemble the California freaks

but not as in high for fast and for cheap

as in, come again, with me under

this California shower, drink me in

to forget all that is not soul-deep

at this, i become

a melt-in-your-mouth

June bloom

soft, rosy, thornless

under you,

rain storms in your eyes

gentle hunger as you bite

i am not weakened,

nor made meek

my breath given,

and received;

simultaneous release

flesh deep,

then bone

soon marrow,

i hope

a lust for life

surpassing eyes,

charred glances stolen

from the burning haze–

no, the California rain

carves, expands,

creates...