Bloodless
Claire Cronin
5:34I was in the black woods, not the bitter land With my gut string murmured and my oil lamp He appeared, come shining like blue shock of rain And the wolfman blinded me from pain I was sharp and narrow but not accurate With my ancient necklace and my sacraments A wolf to knight me with a true set of fangs I left all my trouble in this way In this way Let it fall, fallow fault Lay these fevers into rest I was bored with silence and emergency And the wolf was reckless and he followed me To appear in a nightgown like a doll at my side And the wolfman wounded me from sight