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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

(89) on first hearing its name (from Uttering Her Name)

Themes

Sound

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
on first hearing its name
I wanted its shock
had I found an electric eel
I would have kept it close to me
jolted into awareness
whenever vagueness or revery set it

at the end of my fiftieth year
You appeared like an eel, a naga
from the depths

I bristle like a furry animal
sure of its doom
never so alive
as in the force of Your current
that moves and twists in me constantly
cell to delighted cell

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