Orphic Love Song
You were a blackbird that kissed the window
into splinters your lips like lancets left
a violent mess. Your feathers, glass sugared
and phalanx arched from shock, I saw your eyes
once wine-dark red turn opal in the open
light. You were the sanguine shape of return,
spice-jar sill rites to perform. But to hold
your body to the ground, I
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