Ether - Puma Blue

She used to see you in the lights

Like a lotus in blossom, glittering

Soft opossum dog hopeless in want

Searching, skin like a queen

Her silhouette hurts me though

Under the glove of recent moons

The waxy glow and silk cut jaws

All smothered by her charcoal snow

If I could take this ghost into me

Pulling inside tenderly, I could not

Nighttime skin, glistening and remembers

But the beating bird inside its lonely iron cage forgot

So alone this nocturne goes

Frail fluttering moments seeping out

Drink them in

Greedily as prose

By putrid, red wine stained stalls and cheap laughing candlelight

Before they are out of the reach of lips, and tumbling sweetly into the close