On Ceremony

1. You shouldn't wear white
Only ultraviolet light
An inkstain in negative

Lace and gauze are nothing
When already stinking
With sweating and crying

You are the web on my wedding head
The discoloured shape on a foreign bed

2. Long stemmed and lily-esque
You bruise grey instead of blue
Your uncooked flesh is the hue
of the bones that peak and tent it
Bleached and stretched and tormented

How are you so cold and still hold
That mouthful of molton iron
Those teeth of gold

(You kiss me anyway
Oh my god you kiss me anyway)

3. I will picture you in every place except the one in which
we will finally meet
On our pure-sanded, snow-tasting honeymoon
On our beach of powered glass
I see myself scattering saltwater beads as I surface
and breathe
Astonished
I swim to the shore without you