Branches of Blood

from Self Titled Demon by BURLY

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lyrics

The girl I love is
paper.

her heart -- a cascade
of origami
swans sending
her words north
through the branches of blood.

she is a forest full
of hanging

lanterns.

(sometimes
I still get lost there.)

she showed me
the ink that strangers put on her – once

screams carved
into bark, cruel calligraphy
stretched
across porcelain roots dragging
deep into the earth.

it was hard to read.

the black letters
crossed themselves – eventually.

the girl I love
is paper who wants to burn,
who wants the ink
to bleed out
from her mouth like solar flares

and run
into my darkness

every night.

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from Self Titled Demon, released January 25, 2019

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