EllaDesbals
Greenlighter
digging at night, fork-ends
scraping dry surface, a clotting
of blood, the etiquette …
to bury thoughts in the soft-
bound body, to record the names
thieved, the objects
feared: paperdolls and inks, winged
shadow of scissors, or glass needle
threading dark rose: how much a word
could bear, deep in its glass
of splinters and thorns; how
deeply inks marked her hands
scraping dry surface, a clotting
of blood, the etiquette …
to bury thoughts in the soft-
bound body, to record the names
thieved, the objects
feared: paperdolls and inks, winged
shadow of scissors, or glass needle
threading dark rose: how much a word
could bear, deep in its glass
of splinters and thorns; how
deeply inks marked her hands
