Holy Androgyny


Hands of Kali hold your body.
Mother knows what is best
as she presents the sharp knife
of Her medicine and the severed head.
She means business 
while She cavorts 
on the rug
the copulating couple
so willingly provide.

He-Man Go has rippling muscles.
You cannot deny 
his potency, the splendid sex.
He flaunts the ram's horn.
The thunder 
of Zeus is serious stuff.
Jehovah never jokes.  Too much
at stake.
The price political.

What would the divine be
blessed by holy androgyny?
Progeny of milder parents.
not Jesus as a lamb chop,
but the ocean-hearted man.
Not the Barley Queen desiring
sacrifice, but Persephone
making a second and better marriage.

Think of their kissing,
becoming one mask, the visage
formed from their long night,
The Child of their unexplored Body.

(Previously published in the anthology FROM PRAYERS TO PROMISES:
Pudding
House Publications)