A smiling boy
in the sunlight cries
in flushed and lightheaded delight

His eyes like sea baths
sunk in the night
her kisses bite
frostless and lithe

'You've cost me'
carved in her arms
'these lacerations and charms'

Her mother's drawn face
in the park
a blushing girl
in birth dew and stars

Sea tangles angles
white throated calm
I want you all
pasted and palled

You've cost me'
carved in her arms
'these lacerations and charms'

Her mother's drawn face
in the park
a blushing girl
in birth dew and stars