the breath of life
Poems for Jeffrey, 2023
coming through your mouth
is dripping
tear-shaped
all lines of dry blood become wet
and they flood backwards
into your hair
what is that sound
your broken face fusing back
into beauty
restores bones and faith
with creaking and crackling
the light bursts from your chest
into the world
transcending the flesh
unbroken
as all the angels rejoice because you live
even if everything dies
Jeffrey Dahmer Memorial 