09-18 When I Lost The Bedroom

piles, collect my stones,
piles, collect,
piling,
stacking, balancing,
collect our stones,
homaging- zipped
shut.

contained.
stacked.

leaning into,
wind stops blowing,
organized,
polished,

Pyre.

I flirt,
with the
box of matches,
vices lapping at my feet,
Red-beard, cousin, howls to the walls,
TO THE WALLS,
TO THE WALLS,

zipped shut, organized,
metal on leather on cedar,
stones,
falling in line, stars blink shut,
the horizon,
says no, embrace me, no,
embrace me, no,
embrace me, no,

I look up, to my mother,
white paint flakes falling,
collecting,
another ceiling fan,
another dragon,
curls around, bites it's tail,
settling into a snore,
collecting, piling, stacking,

TO THE WALLS
TO THE WALLS

why give me the matches?