Black Haven

Jana Hunter
Cheap rain
Swells in your belly
A suit of champagne,
A fag is a nelly.
Fire in the sky,
A black diamond haven.
A skull is a bone in the head of the raven.
Blood on the ground
Draws flies to the basement.
True love is writ with a stick in the pavement.
Gross alligator--
Hit him with sticks,
Break all his bones so that he can get fixed.
Tell me to never, ever wake up.
Put burning hot, burning hot coals in my gut.
Kids run loose,
Buck-wild and unkempt.
This is a dream that I always have dreamt.
That I always have dreamt.
That I always have dreamt.