The Dove Came

Her breast big with rainbows

She was knocked down

The dove came, her wings clapped lightning

That scattered like twigs

She was knocked down

The dove came, her voice of thunder

A piling heaven of silver and violet

She was knocked down

She gave the flesh of her breast, and they ate her

She gave the milk of her blood, they drank her

The dove came again, a sun-blinding

And ear could no longer hear

Mouth was a disembowelled bird

Where the tongue tried to stir like a heart

And the dove alit

In the body of thorns.

Now deep in the dense body of thorns

A soft thunder

Nests her rainbows.