Blue flame
melting me down
memory by memory
till I'm but a black fleck
of all I ever was.
Burning holes in the couch
with cigarettes and the love we made.
Daylight creeping beneath fluttering eyelids
waking to a snowstorm of want.
An eyelash spiked with the remnants of tears she
cried in her sleep as I thawed.
One last time.