How full would you be of yourself,
Until you were sick and nauseous?
How many limbs off my body would I have to give
Until you had a brand new version of something to twist and condescend
How large is your glass?
Could I fill it from my veins?
Or would you scream that a drought was upon us
Is that just how bottomless
Your soul extends?

When you have nothing else to say,
And the country is quiet
I’ll take us down to the river
She is heavy and overflowing with debris
Blackened, cracking wood
From every fire set at our parties of starting over
We divide our acres and part
I hear the hiss of your sleeping breath in the rain,
I feel the train in my feet
Like the heat under my cheek from the blood in your heart

Every night I spend awake long enough to see the sun rise
In the pale baby blue I see your eyes
Every morning I catch quick enough to see that first light
I remember how alive I left our first time

You are twinkling and breaking me apart
I cannot help but stare,
And thank any kind of God
If I had forgotten them before,
All the words now dissolve into my hair and skin
Like salt in the lake I’ve been living in
Underwater and untouched, unopened to anything
They call me home to shore
My body weeps and seeks heat
You gather my limbs like a bouquet
Blooming through your chest and arms

I try to tend to the wreckage on my own
Because the sun is now so bright
And I hope maybe it will dry the rot and water-logged pieces
But I don’t have enough water to make new blood
The salt clings to my skin and holds on
How close to the animal body is the voice of the heart?
How close are death from dehydration and falling out of love?
Is there anything you could do that would ever be enough?
Was it your plan to **** us both,
Just to be right all along?
I wish I’d fall asleep and wake up taken
Taken from you

He’s a hot crackle on my cold skin
Soft skin of lips on my cautious hand
A real pretty face
Something of my own soul to sink into
Robins egg eyes make a waterfall down my face
Rush across my body
Below the midline,
He finds the summer of me

South state animal
You were hiding in my backyard
For the moment I was starving and needed sharp teeth
To catch me something living and breathing
To eat
You pointed my gaze to the strength of the natural moon  
I found that intuition was enough

Suddenly I remembered I could hunt

Please **** the floodlights
Keeping our entire house awake, climbing the walls
Put a tiny heart inside my body,
Becoming everything from nothing at all
Tell me you’re shaking, even though you hate me
I will keep you warm and still
Shut the door on who we’ve been known to be
To its death,
Let fall your will