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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

(25) snake unwinding (from Uttering Her Name)

Themes

Bower

Death

Snake

Tree

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
snake unwinding
from a lightning-blasted tree
I've spotted You
why should I flee?
I am already deep in Your eyes
come
take all of me
mercifully
let me assist You
here's my head firmly in Your jaws
do not use Your fangs
to stun me
let me live
this death in You now
inch by slow inch

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