bar-tending a heart

a shot please 
                        – was all that she requested
her hand waiting on that glass full of forgetting
instead your arrow went         right       through 
first her                                        left                        lung
               you didn’t stop there                                         no
her index was split in two as she pointed at your bow questioning
her eyebrow was arched into place by another shot
you stained her solar plexus too

                                       ↑
even her knee fell ←out→ of place
                                       ↓
you kept aiming          
                                  firing
                                                                    wounding 

until her shadow was heaving on the floor 

               and all that you could hear was her heart 

in love 
                                                       falling

ritual of purification

Uplifted and                            

                        brought down
plummeting

                    like

                                a fallen

                                             angel

and bam!     bam!bam!                 STOP!

            bam!   bam!                                        bam!

bruises and cuts

Did I say just bruises and cuts
there was the blood         too
all       over       the         pavement             and grass             and windowpanes
did you taste the splatter

I bit my tongue
to stop the s c r e a m i n g
death feels so certain when
your reflection quickens onthesideofbuildings
and you hope for those wings
push them out with all your might
only to               (inhale)

and bam!

                              I forgave you