The Shivers of Stone

"What a slut time is. She screws everybody." - John Green, FIOS

 

You spit fire from

a marvellous height

Reminded me of my

thirteenth boyfriend 

as, ear to teeth, 

he whispered

"gutless"

 

That fire was like you

etching yesterday

onto someone else's skin

You are that supple entity,

suckled me on the sap of 

forgotten things

The feel of you

against my mouth:

delicious

As you squandered me,

sold me for nothing 

bent me bone from 

surreal bone 

When you left

I pressed to dry eyes

a page from the book

you used to carve

across my spine

Then the world erupted

into a torch of blood

Agony became the 

Christian name

you never gave me

 

You watched me,

from your windows of violet

away into the sky

And then you opened the door 

to another

I saw your nails, then-

Shivers of stone

 

The way it felt 

when you touched me