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About Gabriel Rosenstock

Timeline (1949 - )

 Gabriel Rosenstock, Gabriel Rosenstock poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Primal/Tribal/Shamanic poetry

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Original Language
English
(22) the herring gull repeatedly lifts a crab (from Uttering Her Name)

 
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Bliain an Bhandé - Year of the Goddess, by Gabriel Rosenstock
Cold Moon: The Erotic Haiku of Gabriel Rosenstock, by Gabriel Rosenstock
Portrait of the Artist as an Abominable Snowman, by Gabriel Rosenstock
Treasury of Irish Love Poems, Proverbs & Triads in Irish and English, Edited by Gabriel Rosenstock

Dar Óma
the herring gull
repeatedly lifts a crab
carries it aloft
and drops it
on rocks below
until it is satisfied
the shell is truly shattered

the meat devoured
not a scrap left behind

You take me ever higher
clawing air
I forget my fate
submitting to Your hunger

 

 

 

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