Slumberdoll - The Autumns

A smiling boy

In the sunlight cries

In flushed and lightheaded delight

His eyes like sea baths

Sunk in the night

Her kisses bite

Frostless and lithe

'You've cost me'

Carved in her arms

'these lacerations and charms'

Her mother’s drawn face

In the park

A blushing girl

In birth dew and stars

Sea tangles, angle

White throated calm

I want you all

Pasted and palled