Courtney Leigh
p o e t r y
throwing bones
this poem is not about you
soul with tongued eye you see
it’s a hole lying helpless & open
a road-roar no love song
take my hand step in
remember the fire
lit up blue a sphere in your mushroom trailer
i wasn’t there you said i was a spirit lit up red
halo atop your headless hair
such a sheeped wolf
i rearranged your bones
i bled between your teeth
you howled excruciatingly
endless miles of gust & gruff
restless wander lust
what wicked rabbit got a taste
this poem is not about you
it’s the tongue burrowed deep
lashing at me its eye remembering
the urn at the table between
the death we stowed forgetful space
topsy-turvy dreamscape bedding
you no the crow not me

Courtney Leigh is the author of the chapbook, "the unrequited <3<3 of red riding hood & her lycan lover (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)." She is The Bowhunter of White Stag Publishing & a Kitchen Witch for Crimson Sage Apothecary.