Big Cat Falls

     
i CONFLAGRATION    
     
Hell    
     
Vexations’ body      
Arresting spirit’s wings    
I’ve held its company    
     
But none compare with hers    
     
Heat that melts the very hills    
Fumes choking orange sky’s throat      
     
Bathing in no oceans    
No clouds’ respite      
     
Rendering hope    
Black    
     
     
ii EMINENCE      
     
A basin filled with Mother’s tears    
The Big Cat leaping into Her    
Where willows and Her needle trees    
Enjoin to give her place of rest    
     
Begun in chants and sacred songs    
With smoke to all four winds extends
A pool then graced for her alone
With Elder, Mint, and Cedar bark    
     
I brought her there to quench the fires    
With berry-wine and thistle milk    
Caressed her lips to give her strength    
Her Mother’s healing waters spread    
     
Steams rising both from skin and pool    
Her scent combines with Earth’s perfumes    
The doves begin their song above    
Cicadas playing out the tune    
     
And so I stayed and breathed her in    
Her fever claimed the mountain air    
She rose renewed before the dawn    
And came to me to take me there    
   
PHOTO CREDIT: Luminary Media