Bind Your Tortoise Mouth

Bind your tortoise mouth

With mist and curved teeth

The main joke had been cracked

And whilst the laughter melted

Into smaller worlds like whirlpools

Sucking in the slaughtering sheep

I looked at your face in pearl light

And sleepy the clouds that kiss your mouth

And silver-lidded the Moon that laughed and cried

Whilst the crumbs of night that leap into

Shadows as windows close and curtains open

Hissed as smoke might if God could give it tongues

You were not alone in Sanctus sound

As bell shafts spires into liquid dogs

And cats curl and arch into kittens again

From the corner of my eye

I see Black Ships have killed the sky

And you're not alone in Sanctus sound

As bell shafts spires into liquid dogs

And cats curl and arch into kittens again

Yet from the corner of my eye

I see Black Ships kill the sky