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Tuesday, January 02, 2018

like Semele



bathing in the river, Semele took note yon eagle
bloody from blots to zeus, his attentions "regal"
   Semele demanded the god in full glory,
   thus reduced by thunderbolt, an immortal story;

from fires sprung son dio, wine god of frenzy

born to soothe  time and man, needing ecstasy
   a phoenix not ready, zeus sewed in his thigh:
   dionysus, with river nymphs, and mystis, resides

raised in sheer mountains, with panthers, his wine,

wand tipped with spine-bone,             honey of pine
   mead's golden warm fuel        fires the dance
   epiphany blooms               in orgy perchance

  twice born, the grape low:

  wine risen, man knows:

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