the bird of war


Paint-stained nails and fingertips on cut, wrinkling hands sun-soaked and blister-palmed.  Punching blacks and caressing flake white to articulate and bend and she rises off the canvas like a bird of war; majestic and hungry.  The terrible can be beautiful.  

There's something menacing here; like the angel that says, "fear not."

We'll dance again tonight.  Paint and smoke and whiskey and these aching hands, bare-knuckled and chipped and ink-stained.  She'll become.  She'll become.