“I lost you out of ignorant attachment to my body. Then I wasted my time searching high and low. Finally, I found you within, O Shiva, and we united in bliss.” -Lalla, 14th Century, Kashmir
ancient atomic wombs
birth burning human rats
giant cockroach-midwives
deliver collapsing fetal cellars
underground placentas crackle & crumble
smell the blood veins of asphalt pumping out the tar of the future
(my neurotransmitters have fruitlessly
courted the letter ‘θ’)
welcome
to the hades of my fulfilled desires
here there’s no right of way here there’s only instant pleasure
(a pyramid of genitals smiles at you)
lalla, you have counted my breaths
it’s the blue-throated one
who stares at me (deadpanned)
i
am headbanging in the hell of (my) embodiment
© 2022 Giorgia Pavlidou
Giorgia Pavlidou is a writer and painter intermittently living in Greece and the US. Her work recently appeared or is forthcoming in Caesura, Maintenant Dada Journal, Puerto del Sol, Clockwise Cat, Ocotillo Review, Strukterriss Magazine, and Entropy. Additionally, Trainwreck Press (trainwreckpress.com) launched her chapbook inside the black hornet’s mind-tunnel in 2021, and Anvil Tongue Books just released her full length book of poems and paintings, Haunted by the Living - Fed by the Dead.
Intense!
ReplyDelete