11 Ahau
Yellow Spectral Sun
The bluest blue Jay cries
To Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
Whose tiny sunlit scarlet Throats
Dance
In grand extravagance---
Otherworldly, truly---
Grand Crows dip low
Searching for Breakfast---screeching black
Messengers from an unseen Underworld
Guided by the gliding
Flying, dipping, darting
Drumming, thrumming, Hummingbirds---
Symbols of an over-arching Wing---
Hints of a Time sublime
When I too will sing.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Cauac
Blue Planetary Storm
Dismembered like Osiris
Am I---
Parts of me scattered
O’er Land and Sea
A Lineage of Gods
And Goddesses
Precedes and supersedes me---
Dionysus, Orpheus---
Every sacred King
Where is my Beloved?
Is she gone forever?
Is she willing to re-collect
Me Piece by Piece?
Re-member me, my blessed Twin---
Redeem me out of Chaos
Into Order
Into Peace!
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Etznab
White Solar Mirror
(Museum Mycenae)
Golden earrings
Bracelets---Rings
Tissue thin
Pendants---Diadems
Inlaid with Jasper and
Red Carnelian---
Vases---Bowls---Cups
Sacred Vessels vibrating
With ancient Symbols---
Shells---Spirals---wild Goats
Great Bulls---Cuttlefish
Rosettes---Chariots
Dolphins leaping
Marble Goddesses'
Fresh white Flesh and
Alabaster Arms akimbo---
Smooth---unbowed
Though ten Thousand
Years they hold.
©Kleomichele Leeds
