Kalindar

I Am Black Kali of the Calendar,

Keeper of Time,

Goddess of those

who count their days holy,

whose bodies are altars, shrines,

whose bodies change

in endless cycles of fertility.

You are missing in action,

lost in trance in My dark moon embrace

three dancing, bloody days

each menstrual month.

Fertilized by My dark,

emerge Whole,

return triumphant,

pregnant with light.

© Tamara Rasmussen 2018