“Who You Are Affects Who You Are”
Bitten by a miserable mouse
they who walk the hours
they who talk in spent secrets
kill me one glory of regret
trap rays of the sun for insatiable queens
inedible dreams, palpable dreads
walls forbidding to walk up
before you watch us, watch the ushering
and iron strike us:
no chalice for a tougher knight
money breaks us down,
leaves us groveling,
leaves form a scarecrow face,
miasmas milk the sodden firehouse
split feathers, warm spittle,
faces swarm the egg,
true in tune, and only you:
sandals remember your footprints
swimming with the tears
of cheap beast emotions,
fireflies form a raven’s heart.
nicholauspatnaude 