Kate Light: Build It Like This

Build it burnished. Say: acrid, say
sienna, say serialism, say, thigh,

say thy. Build it skyward. Say: promise,
say, everything, say: uncontrollable.

Build it skyward. Say tongue, say wrist,
say: I want, say, you know what I want.

Say: strangely, ripe, music;
induction, seduction, say: yes.

Rev. Revelation. Reveling revenant. Say underlip.
Underbelly. Winterlight. Opalescent. Say

evening wear, evanescent. Shiver this. Say:
for the minute. Say nothing, look downstruck.

Now you are not. Pause for breathing.
You will whisper. Say, at

the side of your neck. Say: I have watched you,
say, I have waited. Build it burnished.

Scatter and silk. Riven. The winner: center
this tilt. By straddle. By stolen. Say moonlit. Say

seaware, if you have no intuition. Say
listing, listening, lessening, nevermore, or feast.

Say summer. Say guess me.
What do I wish for

Tumble and timing. Say remember.
Don’t say. Say tearful. Say now.