Lindworm

i.
I have shed for you, Peaches

For you I am diving into a fair-complected pool of cream
Thicken my arteries, pale ideal

Your arms a soft mellifluence
Be cradley
Be motherly
Cover my slithering sins

Let me lay my head against your breast and feel the subcutaneous flow
The white rising to the top
No jaundice, no despised gristle, only honey hair

Coat the teeth and line the throat
Soften the scream I have loosed for you, Peaches

ii.
There was a daughter
That was the promise of the crone
Red for a boy, white
For a girl
What horror when we do not look like they think we should
I have gnashed up other girls in my indignation

iii.
I will come out of this milky
Match the roses in my cheeks to yours
Bathe in our sameness

iv.
When they find us in the morning will they think me pure?
If my skin is the color of cream, will they mind the rest?

Sleepytime for Rafa

Great Cinnamon Bear lives among the stars

He comes from his world and down into ours

And though his teeth be long and his claws be sharp

The Great Cinnamon Bear has a most noble heart

He lumbers through the night, looking for dreamers

And stops when he finds some fast asleep sleepers

"Come with me!" he calls, and if you dare

You can ride on the back of Great Cinnamon Bear

Up, up you can fly straight on to the stars

Soaring towards a new world and right out of ours

To the Dream Land you'll go, a place without compare

As you ride on the back of Great Cinnamon Bear

You'll leap over asteroids and feel nothing finer

Than brushing the tails of Ursas major and minor

Past planets and comets, on through nebulae
You'll swim through the star-clouds of the Milky Way

And then glide away from the moons and the stars
Away from the Dream Land and back down to ours
For when adventure has filled up your head
Great Cinnamon Bear brings you back to your bed

And if you are afraid of the dark or nightmare

Worry not! These are breakfast to Cinnamon Bear
He eats up bad dreams and anything that will frighten
And keeps the night safe, 'til the sky starts to lighten

So dim now the lamp, and draw up the shade
It's time to depart to where dreams are made
Just close your eyes tight, and a sleepy smile wear
For you're off to adventure with Great Cinnamon Bear