2 February
Three times
Around the house
The well
Light a candle
Swallow your years
One for the next
Can you see your shadow?
Fertility goddesses
White and blue
They demand offerings
Your vanities in a plastic bag
Perfume
Jewellery
Combs
Lipstick
Mirrors
Curse them
Roast them
Burn them
Thank them
Make pancakes
Your gold coins
Your sun
Feed the
Blooming fear of
Bloodthirsty Cyclopean delirium
Cut your sick limb off
Its fabric surrogate
Hang it on a tree
A burned virgin
A Black hole
Too dark to capture
The serpent will come
on the day of the bride
On her dress a text
A prayer
A scream
ETIEPESEPMERI
LPVRINENIPEPNEIFANT
EAFM IPNINI FMEAREI
NARMPRLMOTARE
OLM INRANFR TAEBNPEM
NVINAPIMLIFINIPI NIPIAN
EVPMIRNA
ENVPMTI
EPNMPIR
VRVIVINRN
APVI
MERI
PIVNIAN
NTRHN
NBIMEI ANNEIPERFMIVIFVE
In the holy land a floor mosaic
A cave
Blood red stone
Stained by monthly flood
The curse the poison the antidote
A holy drop
Breast’s first nectar
Injects the life-giving wound
Baby bottle jammed inside
Blessed needle to the curse
Of endless floods
Nurture the scapegoat
Until time comes
Recurring sacrifice
A lamb stew
Slowly cooked
Sloe gin
Ewe’s milk
Crushed rock
Casein cocaine
Add a pinch
Stir
Drink
and pray
