Strawflower's Waltz - Chris Bathgate

In the balmy breath

In the backwoods of Magnolia

Me and my love we lay

Me and my love

We linger

And this room’s been kept for 3 days

And the scent that blazed across my face

As she had cracked the window

Strawflowers

In the catalyst calm

In the comfort of a coated awn

In a field that I loom

In a field where it started

We lay in the deepest green

Ten years since I’d last seen

You are a thorny bird

Strawflower