WWRWTW - Skeleton Woman

[Guest guest]

Firefriends:

Reading PInkola Estes' book inspired this:

SKELETON WOMAN’S LOVER

With automatic hand

Your oar, strokes amorously -

Your boat

Gliding on the river

Beneath the river.

And mirrored in my

Crone's milky eye

These white coral bones

Beneath

Slowly carressed

By the whispering current;

Drawing you into my arms.

Have you sailed these waters

Where Daimon's breath

Takes your sails

Against all willpower?

Billowing with love

Your speedy sail.

Now the water refracting

Gleamy shards of moonlight

Transmuting

Inky blackness

Magically

I

The incubator of bones

Cracking open

Thy boon

Amethysts light Violet

From within;

Gems Of the first water.

I sing Abraxas' charms, and

Girdled in helioropes,

Fire Opals and red coral

Offering my wise marrow

Bid you to my

Boney bed.

After the bonfire,

Under the fire pit embers -

My fingers

Glow into words.

Writ large

Upon your soul,

My name:

SKELETON WOMAN.

Cremator of bones

That into ash record

Tea taken in

Bone China

Sipped through

Wizened lips.

And made into

Alabaster remembrances of Psyche's fate,

Set atop a mountain

For to wed

Death.

By the waters

You sit down an weep.

At your back

You hear the chunk

Chunk of my bones.

You see our bodies

Naked

0n soggy colloidal soil -

Our bones scattered -

Cast in runes

Accross the horizon.

In my bones I hear

Nothing.

Only the imiscus -

Water's skin -

Shivers with sorrow.

Lamenting.

Music upon the waters.

It is I,

Bone Gatherer, Bone Woman, Grieving.

And we dance on

The Stygian shore.

Frances

Toronto

November, 1996

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Frances

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