Ramon, Ramon,
your trouble comes like a burst of startled crows.
Ramon, Ramon,
you smell of fire, smell like all that’s left of my home—
Ramon, this night’s made up of smoke and the wings
of a thousand crows.
Ramon, is it even night at all?
Winter night in a motel pool,
all I had was the heat of you hands,
and a man watching—you knew, you knew,
you wrapped me in your limbs like a mummy.
You took that pool water, watered your trouble,
till it grew, it grew, and I helped you.
Ramon, Ramon, there’s more city lights here than crows
in this world. More doors and roofs
than even you could burn.
All saints day in a yellow field—
our hair as pale as the polluted moon,
you lit a cigarette on the zipper of my dress
and the hillside burst into a startled red,
no ocean or dew could ever extinguish you—
Now Trouble and I wait on my apartment steps, for the M60,
for you.
Ramon, come back
for what you left with me,
and our family.
Ramon, without you, there’s nothing for us to do.
(Pieces of burning island, blinking New York City’s lights,
pieces of burning island, if you never answer—
why do we have the word why?)
credits
from Old Weather,
released October 31, 2012
Art by Willow Holdorf
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