Private Lessons

I told my baby
live inside of my ocho patas

I will give you
private lessons

and then
if your beautiful eyes

become cloudy
and unfocused

and if the moon
slices your thighs

with its lemon swath
then el ocho patas said

it will be ok
it will be ok if I see you running

away from me
slipping off

dirty sock after dirty sock
as you run from my writhing love