i am done and can't be undone

i am mother earth father son and holy terror
i skip across my multicolored self sing songs
of hate sing songs of love sing songs of songs
long gone. my forest green arms wrap my
self in blazing azure sky: i stand on river banks
laughing -- watch my life bend with each rock
in my way hear my global bloodline hum with
each beast feeding at the stream of my breast

i am damaged and defective, perfect in form
and function: catholic in my desires unrepentant
in my actions -- i am done and can't be undone

i am the child of myself -- i die for my sins
each evening rise born again each morning eat
breakfast of my body drink the coffee of my
flesh: serving myself i am the guardian of my
heart and my spirit, breathing the breaths of
a thousand dead men at one with myself and
my earthly ego

katrina grace craig
10 september 1996
issaquah washington

"my oma had a stroke today"
"i too traveled to utah in july"
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