Blue Animal

YOU ARE

Like the sea

You write me

Inhale me

YOU ARE

A cold-lipped, deliberate, blue animal with a memory for bone

Taking my scattered language

My driftwood vows

My soft, collapsing promises and worries

In your mouth

YOU ARE

The shore

Over the paleness a white page

Dragging me across it line by line

Until my silence leaves a mark

I have seen your tide

Bending the nudeness of my body

Like something hungrier

Something that love the undoing of my hands

Ruining me

Making relics of what I have tried to forget