The winter that I knew her
With her poison up in Oregon
Distressed oak on the bleak coast
Where the waves carve rocks to sawtooth

Her wide eyes diffused daylight
In the flood plane I drove all night
Hid in trunks of rotting redwood
In the green moss as the wind crooned

In the cold sand, stinging sea breeze
Amongst detritus on a dark beach
On the way out, south of ashland
The snowflakes shred her pale hands

The trees wind out the rearview
If you look back you can't see her
The last exit, she changed there
Into a labyrinth of ornate mirrors

I want her poison now

A broke blonde on my brass bed
I gave her new smiles, gave her new friends
Kissed her doll mouth in my dark house
She was a slim chance and she's gone now

She was so close, a stone's throw
'Cross the river where I pray for
A new rain to call her
Reanimated from the waters

I want her poison now

Poison Oak

Arizona Young

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