by Yoko Danno
KARMA
Of the Male Deity:
He destroyed the ridges of the heavenly rice paddies, filled up the irrigation ditches with earth, scattered about
shit and piss in a holy weaving house,
flayed a heavenly horse from the tail up and threw it into the bottomless
world below―
He was expelled from the Heavenly High Plains rich with golden rice ears to the Land of Reed Plains,
carrying within his belly faceless hot matter expanding, slithering, ever-seeking
exits through the strata of ancient
MADNESS & FURY
AFTERMATH
You have the map, I, a compass,
let's get out of this smoldering land, in haste―night is approaching, hot gasses thickening, deadly fallout piling―
The dormant volcano, a ferocious god, awakened from a thousand years of stone sleep,
is now active―
An overgrown man-beast, awakened from a long slumber, out of confinement, now thrives,
breathing in the polluted air, coughing up toxic gases, living in the shadows of war, spitting out malignant smokes―
Stone embankments crumbled by tsunami, the earth trembles in dismay―
One after the other holy faces appear, fluttering about, disappear from the walls of deserted temples―
The god and goddess, unified in a single body, the slender hand holding a crystal bottle of a merciful potion
to counteract the sulfurous poison,
melts down
to softly glowing
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