She leans
over a large round bowl
whose inner wall
carries crude images
of Sumerian animals:
a green-tongued lion,
falcon wings,
face exploding into a mane
of jumbled lapis hairs,
a frisky griffin
thin feathered paws,
his catfish fin
halted near the nose
of a prancing antelope,
a bearded snake
writhes
on the golden slope
of her back.
The animals stand still,
frightened by the outpour
of a clanging crystal
cascade of water
twined
with pitch-black hair:
like good and evil
entangled
in a deadly knot,
rushing to create
some new world.
A Round Bowl
© Copyright: Vlanes, 2008
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The poems of your new sequence are astonishing, and astonishingly good! Congratulations! This is an exciting development in your creative work.
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