For You by Kim Addonizio

For you I undress down to the sheaths of my nerves. 
I remove my jewelry and set it on the nightstand, 
I unhook my ribs, spread my lungs flat on a chair. 
I dissolve like a remedy in water, in wine.
 
I spill without staining, and leave without stirring the air.
 
I do it for love. For love, I disappear.   

~ from Lucifer at the Starlight. (W.W. Norton and Co. 2009)