I have seen more dead things

Than my eyes dare accept.

I have watched birds

Break open beneath the

Wheels of cars, and thought:

This is what God intended.

A rabbit drowning

In its own blood

Clamped in the jaws

Of a tiger.

Soft white fur,

A cloud in hell.

So tragic—

So beautiful

You cannot look away.

This is how bleeding leads

To beauty….

So desperate to be prey,

To belong to someone

Elses’s teeth,

Not your own.

Blood down both wrists,

A smile too far.

God whispers:

You are beautiful.

His creation—

In every wrong way.