Ode To A Gila Monster (Part Three) Naming a wish wishing a name Gila monster descended into this world triumphant in the twenty-first century hatched from the egg of the sky emerging from a fiction her body an astrological plan in harmony with the rays of the sun slowly slowly slowly slowly towards the four directions a monster of brilliant color sleeping underground dreaming of monkey cup and cobra lily vulnerable flesh eater spiritual carnivore Gila monster the warmest of mothers like the warmest of mothers righteous and paradoxical vulnerable flesh eater spiritual carnivore there goes a beautiful reptile slowly slowly slowly slowly towards the four directions a cold blooded messenger a monster of brilliant color her fatty tail studded with yellow and black beadlike tubercles her gift of spit her healing reptile spit spit of power spit of cure spit of metamorphosis in harmony with layers of water in harmony with Alpha and Omega in harmony with the rays of the sun
Ode To A Gila Monster (Part Three)
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Gila monster descended
into this world
triumphant
in the twenty-first century
hatched from the egg of the sky
emerging from a fiction
her body an astrological plan
in harmony with the rays
of the sun
slowly slowly slowly slowly
towards the four directions
a monster
of brilliant color
sleeping underground
dreaming of monkey cup
and cobra lily
vulnerable flesh eater
spiritual carnivore
Gila monster
the warmest of mothers
like the warmest of mothers
righteous and paradoxical
vulnerable flesh eater
spiritual carnivore
there goes a beautiful reptile
slowly slowly slowly slowly
towards the four directions
a cold blooded messenger
a monster
of brilliant color
her fatty tail
studded with yellow and black
beadlike tubercles
her gift of spit
her healing reptile spit
spit of power spit of cure
spit of metamorphosis
in harmony with layers of water
in harmony with Alpha and Omega
in harmony
with the rays of the sun
Rochelle Owens