Many years I was unsure   My brain was stained, my heart impure   I searched for you; you weren’t there   Your absent face, your absent hair      You are here now, in this place   Salty tongue and paper face   I will climb your mountain thighs   And swim inside your river eyes      Your winter limbs, your lungs of lava   Naked throne and strange tiara   I surrender to you, love   Vibrating bones, my working blood      Oh my darling Clementine   You are not heaven’s, only mine   Your parting day will mean my death   My whole world wheezes with your breath      Tonight I’ll kiss your stucco lips   Your cobblestone breasts and kitchen hips   And when we lay as man and woman   That’s when you’re at your most human