Chestnut

The facts of my life then, laid out like tea leaves

Your mouth glistened like a kitchen

Your adam's apple rattled like a kettle

I put soapy bubbles on my face

I looked just like father christmas

Twelve others wounded with drink on the deck

I haven't slept through the night once this year yet

I said I liked your smile

No wait, that's not right

It's that you looked like you walked out of the movies

Crying and shaking, shaking and crying

I was your witness, I was your witness

I was your witness then

For just a moment I forgot your chestnut hair

In the mirror, in the frame of a desiccated shack

On stilts like a monster gaping mouth

Rising up out of the south

Rising up out of the south

And the hall smelled of new shoes