She Stayed as Steam

All that music in your mouth rivers rushing to your teeth surging streams through wading valleys flooded language tributaries connect and cover over me tensing jaw & cork screw eyelids as if you couldn't bare to see all that water roaring from you collecting clouds inside the ballroom over people who don't know you but darling i do you trance yourself back towards the city blood not moving to your feet automatic listless shuffle your foot falls tentative and muffled your sidewalk scatter brain, cry uncle you settle back into your corner and look for her on your tv it's friday night and i am hungry for a hand, a mouth, a body a love i wouldn't have to carry some stitch in my mouth and i'm untying now a concrete canal in a bomb border town an echo in the rafters reminding you there was a sound but you killed her in waves she stayed a steam to hiss at you now cause he killed her in waves but that's not today so you breathe through your mouth you calm yourself down and hold what you found so sweet and profound she can hover and hurt or dissolve to dirt some prayer in you mouth or she might stay a steam soak into the beams let you figure her out