Pyromania

In calculated syllables of uttered exclamations,

Our conjugal baptisms are rife with strange gyrations-

How little we care to confabulate mercurial

Explanations for the desperate conflagrations.

Measured complacency confuses the words,

Mid watery couplings of breath tangled births-

Imagining chance could bear to frame

Or show proclivity for hungry flames.

Test the mettle of my speech,

As the lovemaking twists to turn;

Spare moments of the rare occasion

When I pray just to burn.