Winter in the South - A. Savage

Wind-woke was the torch that summoned me unto your porch

'Til into your parlor I give

How can you still smile?

There you are, it’s been a while

Back to the tower where you live

Can I speak to you, like I’ve always wanted to

With every eye on my face?

Where you find my worth, waking snakes out of the earth

Home is an hour not a place

I’m a screen doors wire

I am drying flowers

I’m a postcard read, filed and fed to it’s place in the drawer

Winter in the south, Autumn from a northern mouth

Acts like the cruelest month did

When I last was here, happy to return my dear

Talk for a while and let’s sit

Ample was the floor for sleeping in the clothes we wore

That night we called it a bed

With no fear of shame

The nest I could accommodate the dead the lie between us

I’m a bowing eye

I’m a pilgrim’s mouth

I’m a toy you broke speaking slow as it sentenced the end

You’d dreamt that I died, my face on another’s hide

Stretched like the string on your door

Feel my pulse and tap that beat which my blood marches at and

Claim every ounce of it yours

Two weeks on the lam, now I’m back at home again

Nowhere to run but the page

Often goes the sound, of a hearts uncertain howl

Clanging the bars of its cage

I’m a hotel shower

I’m a tempted saint

I’m a distant hound making sound as it dreams on the floor

Talented with words, but am I more than pretty verse?

Read by a voice in your head

Am I on your mind?

After all has bloomed and dried

Milling around like a scent?

Now I hold the torch, now the invitation’s yours

Glowing on fire like a cake

I’ll be thirty-one next month and I only want

You by my side as I wake

I am no wrong turn

Is there such a thing?

There are only turns that we take at one time you took me