Polish Girls

the words avoid my tongue a wish to awake picture-less to lean your fever up against mine trees are growing from our grave roots are tangled in our bones polish girls in ruins tease like chinese letters left undone on a black wall invitation say goodnight before you go cut lips on frozen words cracked teeth on hard syllables wolf's milk and painted eggs an opium eaters dream polish girls in silent tease ruined and undone when the moon decides to show a writing spider counts your teeth something broke in you before your heart stopped ticking you go undone cold & quiet ocean lungs to peel away time & distance a black wall invitation calm & lost the ripeness of the hour a black wall invitation say goodnight baptize this off of me before we turn bad