Dancework: A Valentine
In the ocean of our bed(s) I am suddenly right.
All our mouths, (all of us), stuffed with lace.
Not echoes but chandeliers. Not bones but bliss.
I want to ward off everything
that looks at you that way.
I need to buy you a freshly killed X.
Louise Mathias is the author of Lark Apprentice, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize, Above All Else the Trembling Resembles a Forest, which won the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest, and The Traps (forthcoming from Four Way Books). She splits her time between the …