That Shadow, Sister

That shadow,
sister,
takes the sun in hand
green as the flame
veils the heaven skirt
fire as black
led down from the sky
dreams that unlearnt
haberdashery and music
slowly whiten
that coral sky
for embroidered fires
the magician's sleeve
out burst a rose
swelling waves
of owl-lit clouds
crowded into oblivion
as animals beyond
the hedgerows recite
their lines the scene
opens in darkness in-
between the blood
cooked out of sin light
and the moon collapsed
under a nightlight
finding its effigy
a pale leaf horse
vein to solid vein
a god of mulch
these words incantate
—daybled darkbreak
abracadabra light—
horsewords
from a mouth of teeth.