Last Year's Blessings
You slept in my bed
gathered what you could
before our power recoiled
on itself and soiled my finery
I was sacrificed at twilight
when blue art
like dissonant foghorns
birthed harmonies
unexpected
In the morning I thought
the sky might look different
Now you have gone
I hear chanted incantations
the refrain of my pulse
No attempt to correct
Honoring my need to be wrong