6. Blood Eagle Moon

[just_the_ash]

Blood Eagle Moon

I love this pain: thick and sweet,
red but not monthly: all through
arms, legs, spine
feet, invisible
stigmata

This was my bargain with Cerne,
deer-horned hunter: drink this wine
I suffer,
to keep safe whom I love
completely

I am told Vikings died in
many lurid ways, to quit
a grudge, or
make sure they would go to
Valhalla

Here, bound to the earth with thongs,
gagged also, druid's poker-seared
sacrifice,
I offer this pain wine
for the face

I love, rabbit in the moon