To the Goddesses and the Gods

Invocation . Musai, this offering, that with each line of the words, crushed- rock dust is cracked and planed down hard upon the consonants, whereas the fine dust, the lighter-than-air, it flows throughout the vowels, it swirls a slow smoke loop or two inside the hollow of an o or an a and then released, and away, spark-trails drift diagonal across five sun-beams, and away... I had gotten a first-class education in poetry and was en route to an academic career. I had had an overwhelming spiritua