RAPHAEL OF FAMINE

Your veins were shades Sicker than the field of sages You stood in So, I fed the fire High and wide There's no time to inhale The smoke will pull my throat out Flakes of earthly remains Ashes through my eyelids Where did my right eye go? It's so dark Where the light is You're more to the left Still in the same place You watched me from the other side As I poured my last bowl of salt Into the rivers surrounding me To preserve my life for eternity I became you, staring at me With a missing seventh rib Bloodshot sclera Like the cracks in my lips Could have sworn I've see you Cross the briny threshold Your nails caught my skin Grazing me in the grit Rub it in my face and Into my open wounds