Paraboloid totems of evergreen hope, upside down
Sparkling white trinkets, sparkling white dears
‘What do we need to do now?’
You ask
I got my husband’s winged blue stone gift around my neck, a dragonfly
Isn’t my green dress an ornamental kingly shroud?
Both stormy and luminous, the cuts on my arms are still caked in dried blood
You are sad: your heart bleeds into mine with a bit of emerald dust and ruby red sunrises
The Doctor is the Rose; I am the Flame
You are all marble, Plato, self-contained
I am grotesque, decaying, Lilith-born
My scars are trim poodles
Whose slightly wolfish eyes
Will bleed a blazing cornucopia of yellow wattle sprigs
Doctor, your heart is a gold mine and joyous as Spring