Cherry Stained Knees

She was born straddling a pair of ruby eyed dice weened on black alleys and salty blue smiles- Wild cat coaxing greenbacks from denim lined crags riding hard-driving far-diving high-screaming brass- Climbing steely mountains capped with pyrite hearts she thanked a lost lord that tears didn't glow in the dark- For a time she walked for miles along sunlit paths which demanded pinches of patience and flakes of faith neither of which her dream catcher could ever catch- She died alone draped across a bent bottle cap thrown trilobites and mad dogs marched out her Marlboro red throat- Leaving stiletto scars on virgin faces of hope and eternity that creamy queen of damnation with cherry stained knees- (2008)