Christina Conrad artwork by Christina Conrad
last song

you come
you and your claustrophobia
to drop in my lap
you never thought
I could have changed
from a wooden martyr
in a bath of your blood
my feet
thorns

your moon is not in the same place as mine
the river flows fast
over smooth rock
where you lie
that red fish you catch with your hands
gapes from a bowl of rock

I never saw the snakes
that glide round you
your letter comes from a summer far away
you cannot feel the winter
that has come down on me
 
 

Art by Christina Conrad


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