The Flatpack Bride of Possibilities

You arrived in kit form
Your complete naked body
Laid part by part
On soft white silk
Your muscles like balls of scarlet dough
And your bones as white as milk
And your organs suspended
In liquid and sealed in small glass jars
And shielded from light
In a black metal box
Chained up and locked
With a warning of danger

Your beating stranger's heart

Oh flatpack bride of possibilities
Endless and amazing
Of plugging and of plumbing
Of stitching and sewing
The stockings of skin
For your languid limbs
And the patchwork palms
Of your parchment hands
The weaving of wisps of the wig
And the strands of curly
For the marking
Doggardly working
In the drowned out half light
With lovestruck hearts light
With eyes like lanterns for danger
And stranger than all
I'd imagined you'd be
Is the you that falls into place
But twice as intriguing

And ten times more gorgeous
Than the dream of you that I chased

Would you stop breathing
If I plugged this tube in this line here
Would you stop blinking
If I stitched this to your eye
If your instructions of assembly
Are a bit unclear
Is this a calf
Is this forearm
Or a thigh
Let me build you
Part by part
Help me build you
Part by part part part
Like I saw you in a dream

A flatpack bride of possibilities

And each bone connected
Each organ plugged in
Reveals another unexpected joy
And with your very first breath
You sing me the love song
Of the girl assembled by her boy
And your limbs may
Protrude from some surprising places
You've got two heads
But both with beautiful faces
And word of your wonder
Will wander for miles

With your five shining eyes
And your three winning smiles

Would you stop breathing
If I plugged this tube in this line here
Would you stop blinking
If I stitched this to your eye
If your instructions of assembly
Are a bit unclear
Is this a calf
Is this a forearm
Or a thigh
Let me build you
Part by part
Help me build you
Part by part part part
Like I saw you in a dream
A flatpack bride of possibilities
Of possibilities