Domestication - Laura Gibson

Once again, I’ve been alone too long

I arrived, thistle-strung

Built a body from the bone you throw on

I was cold, I let my hair grow wild

I shook the dust from my boots

I hid my teeth beneath the honey jar

I was born a wolf in woman’s clothes

Shadow-stain, blue and gray

Tore a hole in every dress I made

Knit our limbs and trimmed the ivy back

You let me lie in your bed

You saw my hunger

Called it tenderness

Take me gently

Make me into somebody easy

Fables speak and needles stitch

Oh, I only wanted to be easy

Call to all the low and snowless ones

Ever dark, ever quiet

Never barking out loud

I’ll be gone before the dawn kicks up

I have no patience left

Won’t tuck my tongue into my mouth

Take me gently

Make me into somebody easy

Fables speak and needles stitch

Oh, I only wanted to be easy

Ah, to be easy