Wednesday, June 18, 2014

A STORY OF THE GODDESS

    With one's whole body, as these dancers


    Nowadays her husband, a sea scorpion
       an equally fervid stabber
   the world has its legends of life
 a great feast and festival
                      the rhythmical movement of the nymph


    The girl became
    world voracious, and impotent


with a wild temper, she keeps watch
           her one eye over the mammals
                 her severed fingers sprang from her body transformed
        gauze and a black backcloth towards humanity
the chief deity of the lower autumn people
   an armless woman with whom she shares the arctic
    and there she still dwells, keeping this ballet without music
                                                                       from shaded bleachers


                                                                  far north hold her honor

5 comments:

raw poetry by donna snyder said...

Something extraordinary, inscrutable,b yet so moving.

Iulia Flame said...

Truly. Sedna, and the Sidhe, hovering presences.

raw poetry by donna snyder said...

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raw poetry by donna snyder said...

ps who did the background art on this page?

LukeBuckham said...

Thank you, Donna. I don't know who made the background, it was one of the stock options that blogger offered me. It looks vaguely like some places I've inhabited.