She taught me,
                         ultraviolence,
ticking, clockwork,
                                orange
standing in the sea, unafraid
of the
ferocity of waves, hitting
shores, bodies dragged
delving,
             digging,
deeper to the roots,
souls buried,
hearing, I am hearing them,
                                               scream,
the sky opens, filling oceans
poison, killing,
                        softly, wreckless
pouring that hope, a rope
strangles at love,
outcomes,
inevitability as consequence,
oh, the bamboo
piercing bleeding skin,
                                      punctured,
gashes flooding sirens,
road ****, eaten away,
vultures,
offering the,
only
company.

© Sia Jane