through the dirty windows

too soft for their stones

tangled bodies find eachother in the candlelights caress

a twisted embrace lying on blue carpet

shadows dance on the radiator

she crawls towards the last cigarette as an almond-eyed python whispers sweetly in her ear

“only fur”

the cabbage is crying in its cradle now

sweet decay in the nothing room

as the mother’s share eachother’s secret soups, secret smiles,

and douse their crooked bodies in rose and polish

the mirror has been peeled from the wall

with union years of bad luck to come

a new currency of salt and hard black tape is spent on reversing curses and on new beginnings

how i cried at the many love-songs and at the new life growing in blossoming red wombs

how i welcomed it

how i touched it

with hope

and with water

and how i held my lovers hand, through beds, through time,

i took off the blindfold

and turned to the sea the sea, waiting behind me, rocks and all,

stagnant with indecision and with the weight of it all

unknown, unfathomable, but alive as ever

a fawn asks sweetly with unblinking gaze if it may finally pass

i hold the sword now

like the beautiful flowing locks of a friend i love

once held a knife