Wednesday, September 04, 1996

I put the tiny vertebrae on your belly as a spiral

Oh my love

my serpent spiral love

oh my love

my spinning sleeping love

oh my love

oh my love

oh my love

oh my love

a guide told me

there was a huge black snake

on the bridge my love

and I walked to it

through the swamp

and he was beautiful my lover

huge black long

radiating powerful

and coming back to the house my love

I moved the rock

that covered our black snake

and found its bones

left six months ago

they were dry light sharp

taken by the earth my love

eaten by her

and I carried the tiny vertebrae

in my palm

and washed them in the spring

and the hawks called

and the owls called

oh my love

I did

and you lay naked

half asleep

deep in a trance my love

and I put the tiny vertebrae

now dry and light as the wind

on your belly as a spiral my love

starting from your navel

I put them around and around

and then they rose up your center

in between your breasts my love

like a tail

from your heart

oh my love

and I licked you from below my love

under the serpent's head

and I woke the sleeping serpent up

and you sighed

and moved up and down my love

and moaned

and slid upwards and kissed your lips my love

in the eternal kiss

and I slid downwards over the serpent spiral

and licked you from below again

oh my love

and the serpent awakened

and rose in me

and came into you

so softly my love

and he emerged

and you kissed him alive

and he entered you my love

and awakened within you

and your serpent rose

and spun

and they intertwined

within you

within her

and were one

oh my love

and we sang

and we danced

and we screamed

and they merged

and exploded everywhere

oh my lover

they did

and afterwards

we put the bones in our medicine wheel

in a spiral around the center my love

around the two corn women

around the bears making love

around the rattlesnake skin

and they spun my love

and took the whole medicine wheel upwards

and carried us into the sky

with all the animals

oh my love

and the serpents sung to us

"oh my children lovers

oh my spirit lovers

as the serpent god

and the serpent goddess

we have come for you

within the darkest night my babies

within the brightest day my lovers

and we have entered your bodies

and we have become your spirits

and we have given you our power

oh my children lovers

and we rise up within you

as your life-force

and we rise up within you

as your sexuality

and we rise up within you

as your healing power

and we rise up within you

as your vision

oh my children lovers

we do"

and we lay as one

intertwined spirit lover

before the earth was born

from her belly alive

ready to bite

oh my lover

we are.