mama we weren't against the world, i was
making friends, the wolves were at your heels
bright lights lit your face when the police came
more times than i know numbers for.
where the trees blew, on our house you feared
but only close enough to thunder my dreams and
shred the precious papers that hid our names and
lists of sins. you think that heaven will
open your mouth on the best kind of kiss, that
reason is rushing through us every moment
as you rage against your old carpet, your viking
fists, your tiny lungs pretending to breathe
come clang a new dream awake, a dna test
that takes time to unravel, you breathing hard
while i slept in ice, in blood, in strangers' houses,
in casts and cells and anguish and australia
and places you cannot imagine, although
you put me there. held me there with the weight
of all your missing sentences, your dead chickens
in the hen house, your solitude and broken
promises cracking like bone, breaking like
something sadder than home
awake now waiting the bite, the web
the hard walked heels bloody with fight
no blame for the scenes painted on screens
old worms weaving silk for coffins and queens
you said it was enough, to be drenched and
drowned and wrapped in love
the turpid and hazardous versions of stuff
clamped like old medicine under these tongues
from foreign and fertile and flamboyant isles
the winter will find you, the hunters will climb
these were saints, the lines in my fingers, the way
that pressing them into you made me feel small
breathing her chest to a flutter, winding the wool
from prayer to poem, to a song that she won't stop
singing, lonely, she calls it...another word she's
making up, it means goodbye and help
and she says it breathing in and out, she says
it in whole gulps of nighttimes, the nightmares
in stitches, in stripping away, in skin that still
remembers poor visions, splinters, every
slight sting, a better boxer, a wordless version
of holy forgiveness stuck in a cellar smoldering slow.
dededos
germansingergirl
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theartofmadeline
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