The Cutting Board

from Bitter Fruit by Jodie Oakes

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lyrics

The Cutting Board

Underground,
Time curved a constant grey.
You played old jazz
On the broken piano,
And the cat clawed
The violin bow.
Once
Barefoot gypsy girls
Had sold peaches
In the road,
Rolling over in the dirt,
For strangers
Selling amber
From their pockets.

In the old hall
We smashed glass bottles
Against the hanging man.
Gangrene chandeliers,
Rusted taffeta,
And asbestos silks.
In the growing gloom
We devoured each other.

Starting with a fingernail
To gnaw away the hunger.
Nibbling on lips and lobes
Until we had lost
Our features.
Blinded
By the bombed out skylight,
Stripping the skin,
To chew soft fat
For days.
Like Adam
You spliced the rib,
Your German hunting knife
Carved the rim.

The hearts we saved for last.
Barely bearing to let them go,
Avoiding each other’s
Torn out expression,
What a feast we made.
The ripest fruit
Pulped
On the cutting board.