Electric Fence

Lit a blue tip match
Off the white of your eye
It's apples and cigarettes
On a cold water drive
Give your belly to the lions
And your throat to all their babies

The power washer screams like a panther
Your rope and scar and rabbit hearts
Jesus drains electric fences to fill you again

Sailors mouth and falling braille
Don't fall away, don’t fall away

You sleep like an angel
With sparrows beneath your eyelids
Wash in a fountain, lean into the kill
The mayflies all explode when they come to the coil
At the driving range under blocks of fake light

A broken feel, electric fence
Don't fall away, don’t fall away