Illuminist Lodge

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When Harran was cloaked in greatness

When the world could still hold the outer cloth

Rachel was born,

surrounded by honeycombed ziggurats.

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A song in the fields

moves through

the wild grains

From the center of Rachel’s chest

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A subtle breath

Moving out like serpents in six directions

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Out, Out, Away

Out, out, beyond the field of grain

Into the space of the Corn Mother

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Cloak yourself in Al-Hadi, Al-Mussawir

Cloak yourself in corn husks

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Put on the clothes of wild grasses

Pollination

Jumping genes

Cross pollination

Six songs

Six snakes

Six directions

Six breaths

Six veils

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Cloak your visions in Reality, Al-Haqq

Cloak your reality in husks,

spiral breaths

loadstones

nourishment

sweet soft kernels.

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The body of the corn mother

Announces itself

Standing as stalk, tassel, ears, and spiraled husk

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The breathway and birthingway of Rachel

The song as it moves through the grasses

From Harran to Israel

Her children are kernels

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The bowing enclosed stars

Wrapped in spiralled earthy husks

The tip of the ear, the patriarch

The Eye of the North, alone

Dreaming of her arrival

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Her scent

Her Reality