She Comes from Somewhere

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

For Jane

225 days under grass
and you know more than I.
They have long taken your blood,
you are a dry stick in a basket.
is this how it works?
In this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.

When you left
you took almost
everything.
I kneel in the nights
before tigers
that will not let me be.

What you were
will not happen again.
The tigers have found me
and I do not care.