Mandible

O sweet darling
of a mess, you are.
     you are!

if i bite down
on this stone we plucked 
from the shiny skin of water during
our second summer
   if i
if i bite down on 
     it
for 27 days, and bite down
on it hard! 

it will
give me you again?
    from the dust of my mandible 
  and the lit prism from my bleeding 
gums and screaming teeth you
you will rise?