Liquored fingers entwined in hers The nectar on her palms Dripped to her wrists Before, she did not know the scent of sunshine But in the glint of copper and gold on their wrists She could see forever And beauty and youth
Then the night came in a blaze of colors Sinking into her skin and drying the sweetness on her hands so that it cracked in a glaze She was afraid and alone Cloaked in darkness blind Nothing could save her it seemed So she looked for shelter inside herself Hunched her shoulders into her hurt Waited for the sun to rise
And then the light came Not in the form of peaches and summer But in unadulterated silver Clean and cut out of shadows Illuminating her eyes in a thin layer of moon and breath And the stars spread before her Plated crumbs around a celestial plate
She found sustenance in it, spread her arms out so that she could catch every bit of the light and the glaze on her wrists peeled and fell off, and she stayed that way with her eyes wide open until the sun came to claim her once again in a cherry red glimmer at the edge of the earth.