Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Saturn Lessons


A pic of me when I was sick, under-slept and accidentally put hand sanitizer on my lips thinking it was lip gloss. Saturn lessons are fun. Just kidding, but you don't forget them.

Saturn is the six of swords,
waking up in a cold heat,
the kaa of the carrion crow –
solitary, slow with swift wing-beats

the guttural growl of a Viking
returning from war, with nothing
but a flag held loose like a sapling

It’s you on your knees on the cold earth,
iced grass cutting into your skin through your red skirt

It’s iron-nickel, metallic rock,
negative 8 degree wind-chill shock
in between buildings on a city block

It’s the worn horned hoof of a stallion,
the peak of a mountain, viewed from the top

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