Sunday, August 28, 2011

Mary Oliver

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From West Wind.

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  1. 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


    Rochelle Owens

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