MY BLOOD

In the house of my nightmares...

where a sister's blood ran red & hot

down bedroom walls...

In the kitchen of pacing tears...

where the ambulance driver said

it looked like I killed a cow...

On the ceiling

where the rusty brown droplets

of my life's blood cling until...

I kiss the medics as they close my eyes...

That night never dies...

& yet I bleed still.