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Bathtub - lyrics
Your head leans like a stone against my chest as darkness pales behind the rain. My fingers comb the spider leg hair nestled between your thighs, gently pulling at the birth meat. Mother, I came to you as a child, wondering about my strange leg�thin as a bird�s. You held me close and said, A heron must be floating in your blood. We stood watching the ocean, bare feet digging in the sand. I wore a seaweed necklace. Mother, we stayed until a dark pink haze shone like a blade across the horizon, severing the final threads of light. Then we walked the trail back through the bulrush. Mother, I woke to the drone of crickets in the night, and I whispered to you, A sparrow bleeding in the hearth. You said it was a dream, but I shivered between your breasts and thought of beaks in my blood. A glossy eye lifts from the embers towards the falling sun. I didn�t sleep until morning. All night, I listened to your heart nestled in your heron bones. Now we�re lying in the bathtub like when I was a child, but the crickets are silent in the cold rain, and mother, your blood crawls like tiny red snails through your grey-streaked hair and down to your neck. Your eyes are closed, but you�re still breathing in the pale morning light |
