Rotisserie Chicken

Rotisserie chicken

My burning sun

I ate you too quickly

Now I'm undone

You wrecked my stomach

You saved my soul

You left me broken

You made me whole

Rotisserie lover

Wild and sweet

You worship flavor beneath your feet

Your body trembles

Your eyes still shine

You lost your comfort

You found it in mine

We go back

Same worn trail

Same old tree

Same bent rail

I sniff the dirt

I scratch the ground

Only echoes

Of your crown

(whine...)

Do you feel me in the breeze?

In every leaf

In distant geese?

I'm not returning

Feather

Bone

Yet in your longing

I am home

Why is the grass

So cruel

So clean?

Why can't it give back

What has been?

I'd face the sickness

All once more

For just one scrap

On this cold floor

Rotisserie chicken

Where did you go?

I carry your flavor in every woe

My heart's a kennel of aching need

My nose keeps searching a vanished seed

Rotisserie dreamer

Faithful hound

You grieve for grease in sacred ground

Yet in your sorrow

You prove it true

Love is the mess that's left of you

Rotisserie memory

Fading heat

Love is a curse that tastes so sweet

Park after park

Day after day

What we devour

Still walks away

I'll check this spot

Till my last year

For one lost miracle

That won't appear

Walk on

Beloved

Through loss

Through fear

Love's in the hunger

That keeps you here