Aeons present

Breathe in deeply the breath of a myriad beings.

The stomach receives

Emptiness,

The heart reaches out, clutches at

Something.

*

From the outer edges of perception,

Rushing inward,

My inner gods, mischievous spirits,

Laughing because I will not

Listen…

*

Come to take me far away

To realms of mystery,

To flickering caves in deepest time,

In densest shadow,

In dimmest memory.

*

This body unravelling into infinite, silent space,

Gazing outward, gazing

Inward,

Unblinking,

Unthinking.

*

A giant builds eternal temples

Eternally

For the sorceress who dances her circles of madness.

As he labours, he watches as I change –

He builds, whilst I derange.

*

Shifting, I sprout furs, feathers, immaculate, curving horns.

I dance with her, unfettered as he piles the stones,

Dance to his rhythm, sing to his resonance,

Unfurling my soul into worshipful patterns of growth –

The bark-clad stems, reaching out…

*

The barriers fall,

Water rushes in and immerses us all,

Dispersed and intertwined in turbid oceanic currents,

Helpless, lost,

Ecstatic…

*

A drum pounds, the last stone laid.

Now, enter…

Upon the altar, a cuttlefish

Who stares back and shimmers –

What does she see?

*

She adopts my form,

The form of all things,

The formless form,

It is her own…

Recognition.

*

I know this place,

This sacred temple beneath the primordial ocean;

It is my body –

A dream of coiling flames,

A dream, exhaled.

*

A dream,

A dream,

And yet…