Gabriel Rosenstock: on first hearing its name (from Uttering Her Name)

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on first hearing its name (from Uttering Her Name)

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

by Gabriel Rosenstock
(1949 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

Primal/Tribal/Shamanic : Celtic

Contemporary

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

Themes

Sound

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