Fla

One, two, three, four

Florida, shuck my skin

Find seams and let infinity in

Some of my friends rent huge ruined houses

Where many cruel and desperate things have happened

My neighbor Cliff was unforgiven

He's a cypress split by SS lightning

In the radiant now through the twisting trees

Unavoidable arrows of the enemy

Bring my glass princess out to bleaching reefs

And wreck smooth from the pressure of centuries

Got a gray-eyed boy serving overseas

In my head, his slow smile is spreading

I was just three years old, August '92

Our whole town got wiped out by Andrew

The same age my nan saw wild horses fly

In the great nameless hurricane of '35

I lay awake renaming stars

The sound flat and black as a boulevard

Matthew for my dad, hollowed out by hate

Hell is the truth seen too, too late