| Arms and hair fluid as seaweed, She moved like a goddess from another time, My red-headed Naiad, Thetis beneath my skin. Drowning in the invulnerability She bathed me in. My only weakness where she touched, And I wonder how you lose The person who's kisses are the only glue To put you back together After a night of broken sleep. The spaces between her fingers, The holes in the web of her hair Spread across my skin, The tattered chain mail memory I clothe me in. |