bone by bone by bone

songbird choking on black bile

.

wings cutting air like knives

.

beads sewn in between the eyes

.

caterpillar crawling in the moonlight

.

bell chimes out and over the hills

.

shoelaces muddy, tripping, trapped

.

lemon slices placed over each eye

.

silent ivy slithering against the skull

.

dragging us

bone

by

bone

underneath it all