stoned deity
PERIL MAGAZINE / 2018 / FIRST PUBLISHED AS ‘OTHERWORDLY HYMNS’ / EDITED BY MINDY GILL
in the house where I was born
Indra & Agni make S O M A
by the flames of my parent’s hearts.
the g i r m i t y a is shrouded
in pale yellow flowers
and when he clicks his fingers
otherwordly hymns move in the clouds above us.
the woman with no eyes is a translucent widow
she floats above my hair like a stoned deity
the electric jellyfish distrubutes
p i e c e s of monastic blues
she
writes
them
neatly
on my
lifeline
with sugar
from
bones
of spirits
who laugh
in a language
I don’t understand.
this is what she wrote on my liver:
S O M A
S O M A
S O M A
look for it on a mountain
on a lake
in a lily
it will be m i lllll k yyyyyyyyyyyy
the g i r m i t y a coughs and grows another mouth
& when he clicks his fingers
otherwordly hymns
move
in the fire
below us.
the woman with no eyes sings to a mirror in the sky
a song about all the ways in which to live a double life
there are four hundred ways to live a double life
it is written on the love lines on both my hands.
A L I O N
A L I O N
A L I O N
A L I O N with the head of a lotus sells S O M A in plastic bottles
on a street
where one thousand
magnolia flowers
laugh
in a language
I don’t
understand.
S O M A could be ephredra
chicory
rhubarb
hashish
S O M A could be otherworldly hymns moving through time & space.
Indra & Agni wink from within the flames of my parent’s hearts
the burning of the milk is such a
thrill.