The Red tunnel

But break my heart a thousand times over 
Cut me with green glass and the labels soak off in the boiled blood
black blood when you look at it
Thorns suck in The swifts throats and
Scratches 
The fox screams from the valley she slips down between the dark and the water and the water 
Searching for light 
Rotting yellow street lamp stains the night 
Stains the tracks run over her muzzle
The clock sticks in the swamp 
The breeze stuck between the hills 
Stick stuck 
Back together with glue 
And you 
The moon leaps from the sky on a rope
And you
Broken jaw swinging, minute streams of purple trickle through your grey hanging skin
Matching the stone walls in your head
Black brown eyes that I hate when they search my face for some crack, some shadow
The shutters flash and night closes in
Baring her pointed teeth snarling and spitting 
Her shoulders heave, water over black rocks and water rises under the cold tunnel
You spit yellow acid venom back, I'm am your catch 
Only yours
Each red brick spattered 
The fox listens with her front paw raised 
An echo in the tunnel
Owls watch silently, the heaving mass of flesh on concrete 
Fox follows her tracks back into the soft hills 
And I follow you home 
Bleeding 
And bleeding