The Rising

Stretch like a feline, spine
curved, tailbone up, an urgent
humming of the skin--Oh,
let's give a name to all the outer
parts--infectious, protruding name,
a name the prods the outer edges
of the sheet, loosens tuck,
spills a cup of wine on white--
a name that lengthens teeth,
toenails, dark roots on the scalp,
a name along the lines of inner roaring.