Rabbit

I caught you in the briar patch
Your hair was red, your skull was cracked
Your hands were clenched and teeth were gone
Your eyes were glass, your heart was stone
I looked at you and kissed your cheek

Your skin was wet, your skin was sweet
I held you up and cradled you
Your bones were tight, refused to move
Then suddenly to my surprise

Your mouth it smiled, your soul alive
Into the dirt we fall entwined
Your mouth agape, your neck in mine
You fed me dear with bright red love
Your fur like silk, your body blood

I'll let you sink into the ground
And let the earth reclaim you now
You kissed your God hands
Your lips pressed to dead flesh
And those same lips kissed me

Dead breath
I breathed it into you
My poison saliva sweet like honey
We lay together in dead fields
Dried earth split and ant-crawling
Skin scratched from yellow grass

My eyes have dried, lids stuck and frozen
And the rain comes
I renew, swollen with heaven-syrup
I turn to you, you're a husk

The green shoots writhe around you, the earth swallowing
Empty man with empty hearts
You kissed the wrong hand dearest
You kissed the wrong girl