Broke my jaw with my eyes shut in prayer

Park bench

Knuckles everywhere

Blood in my cheeks

And your teeth in my hair

Looking out at the end of the lie

God's grace

Gutter lullaby

Barbed wire tic for the rest of my life

Oh no, oh my

Brought low, on high

Swan dive

Swan dive

Can’t die

Swan dive

Thinning ice at the head of your stairs

Park Slope

I'm barely anywhere

Thread me along through the threat in the air

Doubled-down and you dared me to blink

Thank god

I couldn't overthink

Buried me deep with your palms to the sink

Oh no, oh my

Stay slow inside

Swan dive

Swan dive

Don’t die

Swan dive

Hot trash prerequisite

Spiral commensurate

Freedom degraded to shame

Failsafes and hardhats

The baby, the birdbath

Anything else in the way

Of your pure dissolution

Emptying out at the sound of your name

Oh no, oh my

John Doe, clean lines

Swan dive

Swan dive

New life

Swan dive