Hands of scalloped leaves

Cast deft shadow puppets

Gliding over supple skin

To kiss away the sleep, before

Her crashed foam thoughts

Feel devouring eyes

Limply swallow anew

She is dragging

Back to that island hill

Where fog's wisp phantoms

Charred mind

Nightmares smolder

Underneath old ashes

Gaunt brambles plague the gauntness

The phantoms leave

Forced out through her lips

Poison from a wound

They sail upon her sigh

That's so deftly caught

By puppet hands

'Till sunlight kiss the child once more