needing blood for blood
Bloodstream Babies
fretful latching
hide
bound
Hidebound
deep in nail Beds
blue crushes
honey dew oils
that pill
on that beach
she eyes me, ancient me[s]
ERSTWHILE
crinkling butcher paper under
weight
tongue clicking
click
click
click
she is my ghost
inland tolls
holding my wrist still
all the ox blood
reds
wedded reds
opal shoulders
opal bones
pew
pew
pew
marbled maybes
strewn
in ancient
the gothic king of Italy
be not mistaken
for a child’s bear
I read fevered
while engulfed
in seas of checkered blue