I once met a girl made of flower petals
She was lovely in all her thousand pieces
Colors curling deliciously across her skin
Honey dewdrop tears whispering down her cheeks

She tried to kiss me but her lips were shadows
Cigarette flame breath dripping up my nose
Sweetness traced the corner of my eye
And she prayed, “I am gone, love, I am gone”

I danced with her, molasses slow
Fingertips touching in butterfly kisses
Speaking sign language in shuttered eyelids
Ashy nicotine dripping holes in our feet

Asphodel tickled the webbing of her fingers
Her smile was full of gossamer sunbeams
Papercuts littered the tip of her nose
She laughed to fill up the hole in my lungs

I once met a girl who scraped out my marrow
Kissed my hollow bones with cinnamon lips
Once she could laugh, she sailed away,
Lighter igniting the mist to trace a ribbon back home.