Showing posts with label selections from MOTHERSEED/FATHERBALL (2009). Show all posts
Showing posts with label selections from MOTHERSEED/FATHERBALL (2009). Show all posts

Sunday, June 5, 2011

bearded god


                                                          bearded god



                             unveiled
                                  swelling belly
                                          painted eyes
                                               furréd mouth

           strapped above the altar she struggles

                          her contractions begin
                  deep chanting drowns her howling
                                       she is hidden
                                         hidden from the robed fools

                         the painted god's face on her belly
                                      twists in agony
                         its mouth beginning to open
                             forward steps the priest
                                      silencing the hairy mouth,
                          with knife he bursts the brow
                                       of the bearded one
                            he has summoned here tonight.



                entrails,
                       brains,
                            it makes no difference
              to the drugged horde gathered here tonight.

                             in a wash of lifeblood,
             the new god bursts forth full-formed
                             into the hands of the Fatherhood
                          into the hooded robe, the caul
                                  stained with his Mother's soul.



2009 Peter Greene.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

energy transformation



                                  energy transformation


                   and the swallows became bronze birds flying
          and instead of tears the sky is crying
                              diamonds
                  and a river of electric light
                            flows outward:
                          borealis galacticus.

                           Mother is awake.



2009
 Peter Greene.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

the village: one

                                   the village: one




                       when the old man kills a rabbit
            first he strokes it
                   touches its head and soothes it
            always a fresh clean chopping block
                      always a clean dry place
         where the sun can reach its open eyes
                         when the head comes off.

                he did a small dance,
                        carrying, stroking, shaking
                                the small corpse
                                     as its life and blood pour out.
                       then cold streaming water
                             and the small, sharp knife

                      skin,
                          a dinner,
                            and crow's meat
             to be raised on a pole platform
                                   in the yard

                      an offering,
                              triumphant,
                 to Mother's janitorial crews.

All around the village the poles are raised, stinking.

                        It is the spring.


2009 Peter Greene.