feet fade into feathers streets are named after leather longing for loops of string ringtones that dream in desert timing first rhymes then rhythms decency gone blind so we must find our light inside held in bed against our will vintage bells dressed in music goose feathers used for pillows the west-winds find his lips respect turns to trust and kisses your bones in bird language i speak tones of glowing stones roses freeze the afterglow of darkness dressed in moans and loaning their hands to anyone that passes