Now for the past three nights…

A darkness so intense that flavors of a death

Where there

In challenge

To look straight in the eye of

Fitful sleep

And stirrings in the nature

Of the animal

To flee

I hesitate to speak

But over years of dreams

I know the flavors fairly well

And this was of the animal and beast to see

Last night

At 3 past Moon
I half woke once again in trembling of the self

As deep

the dark descended once again

Demanding that I look

I froze in fear

Upon the deep edge of the Fall

Said I to Her

"Release and fall!!!

What can you fear

Its only death!"

With this

It burst all open

Like a drop of oil upon the endless water

Pouring from

All underground streams

In constellations of the mind

I saw her face

So fierce...

The Dark and Her attendants

All black and stone and salt

Oh GOD! I cried

Thrusting there her way toward south southeast

With speeds and power unthinkable

I tremble at the very memory of this sight

If this be of a soul

I cry aloud

If this be of some other realm

What is she but a piece of ash:

The earth

Another Phoenix in the Son