Unravelling

Sitting on silence packed in cardboard
Scratching at my throat, soaking
Words in coffee grit
I can't miss what I haven't lost

Baptised by the swell of a wine drowning
Spent in the fire of splitting sun
I have a thirst in the needing:
More breath in my body
Than you could feed on

Knaves pick my smile, thread by thread,
Unravelled in strips before you-
Cut away from laughing names out loud
My lips burst open
Aching to scrape, at last, on your nerves