I chewed a Bible and read it with my teeth

Hold your enemies close.             Like in jiu-jitsu.

I wrestle the angel.             Disarm.

                         Open my mouth wide.                                       Push the text inside.

Its belly is soft vellum.             Above, sharpened pencils, exclamation marks.

                                                                          Read it upside down.                                                              Queerly.

The mouth of language cannot wrap its lips around this.             It can.

Unplumbed                hole                    where the tongue should go—                                    holy scripture                                    wholly absorbed

                                                                            reconstituted