Fractal vines regress down ancient bark
Mending the sinews of torn hearts
Heavy paws print the mossy floor
Claws clinging into damp jungle tile
In hells kitchen this feline waits
Back arched that extends across nebulas

Oblivious prey stands with hair on end
Grazing, eternally alert, eternally at ease
A hoofed adversary, antlers protruding westward
Each ligament in full tense, suspended within the universal mind lattice
These jaguars piercing cones and rods connect with the marionette
She seeks to sever this fleshy puppet from his instinctual dungeon.

An eight legged widow knits away
Her red hourglass passing the time
She spins her mandala quietly
6 eyes observing

the jaguar shrieks blitzkrieg
Stretching her shoulders, colliding into galaxies
The marionette twirls his lanky fingers
The young gazelle stumbles mouth full of fern
As shiva and shakti toss and turn

silky sacred geometry suspends between branches
The arachnid flips over her red hourglass
And places the severed head of another foolish lover
on a pedestal that is dusted with remnants of past mates.