At Home Inside of Me

Crows capturing buildings
and rats camped in a drain
Fireflies caught and cannoned in the rain

Seams of secret people
awaiting the shafts that set them free

They make themselves a home inside of me

Armies of children
and ghosts of Suffragettes
Make merry in the cauldron of my chest

Bodies dumped in ditches
and stowaways at sea

They make themselves a home inside of me
They make themselves a home inside of me

A fistfight at a wedding
A killing on the stairs
The brilliant spark
at the start of love affairs

Your tenderness's blessing
and your assassin's accuracy

They make themselves a home inside of me
They make themselves a home inside of me