take a little piece of my heart it's got a good beat and you can dance to it

  

you hold my breath
in your hand
with a heart
beat dark as honey


we fall in two
and rise as one
both the water
each the wave


how will I stay warm
while I wait outside your door
fingerbone kindling


a couple of wrens
in the pulse of my throat
chirp in thirds


luck is the wing
of a bird on the wind


simple gifts
a bruised apple
still beating