“Candy Heart Crime”
Thanks for your patience—
Do I deliver you in secret—
When the wind talks.
When the hoarfrost rattles
a cage in a cave,
your ballerina slippers
the jackal within burns bridges
cast iron steel aflame
the candy heart crime
webs the cottonmouth snake
steals the kittens
a princess invited me
candy stripped of cane and vipers
removes the nail polish of hammers:
did love forge a future:
we,
emerald crocodile to emerald crocodile
forever in flame.
nicholauspatnaude 
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