Eliza McLamb
​gas leak
The beginning was a bright blue flame
And I believed you when you told me
It would always be this way
But then the fire grew into a forest I could not contain
And I was to blame

The shadows that I cast are all of voodoo dolls you made of me
Out of matter, out of glass
I burned up slowly into ashes, then to dust
That collects on our old photographs
Back when I couldn't smell the gas