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Actually, before we move on
to the full-blown mortality

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section, which will be
the rest of the evening,

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this is something that's
somewhere in between.

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It's a poem, very
short poem that

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has a bit of both in it,
carnality and mortality.

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Dedicated to Colleen
Burns and Jim Burns.

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This is set in Ireland,
it's called "Sheela-Na-Gig."

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"He has reached her island by
stones pegged in swollen water,

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through rain that
has fallen for days.

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He touches the welling
mouth, the split stone.

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She shows him the
opening folds where

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rainwater troubles and turns.

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The rain slows, and stops.

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Light deepens at
the lid of the lake.

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The water creased by the head
of an otter, body of a bird."

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