You firestar. Pool of moonburst. You turned my skin to dust. Rawblade glasstooth girl. With your hot rage and bus ticket anywhere. Never saw a woman run so many directions at once. One night, you shined so bright the police came to watch. Your bruises and shirt-shreds. How we all just stood there, watching you shimmer. Afraid to flinch, for a faceful of claw. You are some kind of firework. Flipswitch blues. Broken Sundays spent towing the boulders out of you. The Brooklyn 3am’s, frenzied as an upturned autobahn. Your porchlamp laughter. The clack and sweep and throb. The buttered slick of you. Your sweat-bead banshee pitch. Mother warned me. Said your sugar was a ruse. Bait. (As if madness is calculated.) I am the cruelest kind of lover. A coward. Afraid of the thing most dazzling. I wished the bleak into my own blood. Prayed a flock of rotten notes. Some afternoons, I wander through your photographs. Letters. Wonder if the river won your war.
"Finally I Allow Him The Pen,” Jeanann Verlee (via commovente)
