Coals from Nobody Dies by Daisy Victoria

Coals

He’s hot footed it over
hope’s scorching coals
he’s known hope that runs true
as the rivers’ blue soul

and to crack like a husk
and get squirreled away
to talk off hind legs
and have nothing to say

I see it in the rim of their eyes
I hear it in the call of dead
I see it in the sunlight in your eyes
and i hear it in the things that you say

she could smell him burning
but couldn’t find a flame
he squeaked into the embers
she went back the way she came

across the plains of poppies
and through the limestone caves
between the bramble thickets
and over unmarked graves

I see it in the rim of her eyes
I hear it in the call of the dead
I see it in the sunlight in your eyes
i hear it in the things that you said

i hear it in the call of the damned
its twirling in the dance of the dead
it plays in the sunlight in your eyes
and in the things that you said

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