"DEVOTIONAL POEM TO MARY OF JESUS OF ÁGREDA" (work in progress)

  come to lay mine earth's foundation !
  mark off the dimensions around me, for without your limits, i am lost !
  stretch your great measure line across me :
  give me footing; lay my cornerstone : my proud waves halt on the rugged rock of ego

bless my burning face with but a drop of dew
and bind my soul to the Pleiades

lay ambush in theological thicket

lurk like the spectral jackal

smile like the mother hyena

sneak amongst the ideas

crouch in your den like a lion

    permeate my soul as water permeates sugar :
    rinse the impurity, dilute the virulent poison

in titan woods and forlorn forest groves i have found repose
i have filled the caves with skillets and handicrafts and silks

carvings, amulets, innumerable goods i stand
on shelves and altars beneath

    the yellow clouds of moth blind me yet i see

    through the storm i behold
    the most perfect vision
    of María de Jesús de Ágreda
    perfectly beholding
    Mother Mary on a cloud

"INCANTATION AGAINST THOSE WHO CHANGE THEMSELVES INTO HYENAS" (work in progress)

the horned owl is camouflaged
and draped in bracken fronds

the camels chew the hellebore leaves
in sage and celadon thicket

the odour of chrysantemums burst
in the sweeping light of noon

the copper has turned green

the jade jar has been broken

a possessed witch howls in the black air

the exorcism of foul Bouda spirits is complete

imperial vampires of black abyssinian blood
are banished
and the werehyena weeps
its song of discontent