LAURA VEIRS

Magnetized

Slain

By your zirconium smile

I was slain

By your olivine eyes

Slain

I was lying in piles

Hoping shovels would cast me

Furnaces burn everlasting

Black tattoos of you onto me

Furnaces burn everlasting

Black tattoos

Burn

Brand my memory

Black

A tattoo of you

Wash

Me with your mouth

Brackish bright water from your eyes

I'll homing pigeon fly

To hover by your window white and shy

Homing pigeon fly

To hover by

Spill

My ashes to the wind

Ghosts

Can gather what they've found

Now

We can struggle in the web

We can struggle

With white spider stars coming down

And night blowing black from the ground…