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The crackling of fires on bare backed bones Soil seeping into spread eagled fingertips Where Orion hangs low on the slope of her shoulders Unyielding her spine splinters the constellations And great cacophonies of slack jawed gods and monsters Hang limply along the water’s edge Hazel centered fingertips turned over their palms Clasped around her dragon breath heart Her honey dew arteries resounding Behind tiger eye flame sleep songs Behind burning mantle pieces of embellished Water works falling from the sky Siren pools embodied behind her pupils The architecture of her bones Hides secrets of gold and stone Laced between her lotu

The crackling of fires on bare backed bones Soil seeping into spread eagled fingertips Where Orion hangs low on the slope of her shoulders Unyielding her spine splinters the constellations And great cacophonies of slack jawed gods and monsters Hang limply along the water’s edge Hazel centered fingertips turned over their palms Clasped around her dragon breath heart Her honey dew arteries resounding Behind tiger eye flame sleep songs Behind burning mantle pieces of embellished Water works falling from the sky Siren pools embodied behind her pupils The architecture of her bones Hides secrets of gold and stone Laced between her lotu

Hair the colour of rust and bones that fell apart We’d eat rocky road ice cream bars You perched on broken handle bars And I would press down on the brakes We were scabs and lacerations Knobbly knees and smoke filled curls I remember when you stole your father’s gin And climbed out of your window Throwing bed sheets tied like cherry knots You were the one who taught me how to do that, you know Brass heart palpitations from running down to the river After stealing apples From old wrinkled trees with knotted arthritic branches Your cheeks were dusted with freckles in the summer And your eyes changed from green to grey We made