hurrah! to be a gentle
Hurrah! to be a gentle, oozing thing,
a chalice brimming with wine.
Hurrah! to be a lion and a frog,
a priestess and a poet.
Hurrah! To philosophize this way,
and to exist also at the want of thought
as the stillness this body carries.
And within the body:
sensation of mushroom,
melon, water, grass.
Most sensual of all your spells on my ear:
I wish to be your holy bounty.
In the name of the bird and the beetle
And the bee,
Amen.