Pomegranate
My flesh must be torn,
moment for sacrifice,
eschewing violence,
vegetal blood, food for a sangha:
red wine, apple of seduction,
self-fertile ovary, menstrual,
virginal, vaginal, fertility rite.
For this shaman’s journey
each must be taken alone,
stripped at the gates, descending,
reclaiming rubies from Hades,
promising Spring.
Consumed, consummated,
self-contained, content,
time-capsule timeless, Mystery,
coven and covenant, ark and flood,
initiate, intimate: Pomegranate.
© Tamara Rasmussen 2018