Part 1 | The Ghosts of Love
Dearest Mess Beside Me Fallen
Dearest mess beside me fallen,
tangled hair, half-open mouth, shuttered eye,
to clean you up would be a sin
no angel'd understand,
unless they'd also fallen thus.
How could they know the symmetry of human lines
broken?
Tossed down we've been but not cast out.
Shall we
break
some more?
Smash the glasses.
Spill the wine
whose fruit fell from the garden here.
Cut and drip, slice
open
the lines, peel back the skin,
reveal it
whole.
Dew is beading on the vines,
dawn is rising there.
Dearest mess upon me rising,
tangled hair, half-open mouth, shuttered eye,
to clean me up would be a sin
no angel'd understand
unless they'd also risen thus.