She Stayed As Steam

All that music in your mouth

rivers rushing to your teeth

surging streams through wading valleys

flooded language tributaries

connect and cover over me

tensing jaw & cork screw eyelids

as if you couldn't bare to see

all that water roaring from you

collecting clouds inside the ballroom

over people who don't know you

but darling i do

you trance yourself back towards the city

blood not moving to your feet

automatic listless shuffle

your foot falls tentative and muffled

your sidewalk scatter brain, cry uncle

you settle back into your corner

and look for her on your tv

it's friday night and i am hungry

for a hand, a mouth, a body

a love i wouldn't have to carry

some stitch in my mouth

and i'm untying now

a concrete canal

in a bomb border town

an echo in the rafters

reminding you there was a sound

but you killed her in waves

she stayed a steam to hiss at you now

cause he killed her in waves

but that's not today

so you breathe through your mouth

you calm yourself down

and hold what you found

so sweet and profound

she can hover and hurt or dissolve to dirt

some prayer in you mouth

or she might stay a steam

soak into the beams

let you figure her out