It is fallible even
strawberries betray
a thing that eats them
all red mouthed at once
before withering green
at the bottom
of refrigerators imagine
though
so many skulls asleep
on the ocean’s floor
whose idea of heaven
is to wake up
from time to time
and see the glowing
sun eclipsed by a body
like yours
and oh,
how it floats without trying.