HAPPY LUNAR CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE SNAKE…

i am born in the year of the purple fire snake

this year is the year of the female black water snake
snake as god/dess of androgyny…
snake as fertility…
snake as the god/dess of change oya…
snake as hand-maiden of the god/dess…
snake as magick staff…
snake as dynamic infinity…

this poem is for serpents omniversally…

memoirs of the snake goddess

before becoming everything
I was nothing
I contemplated nothing
in the nothingness
of the blackness
which surrounded me

I meditated

tightly coiled within myself
my tail in my mouth
I meditated upon the blackness
upon myself
the vast and deep blackness
that was also nothing

an eternal void consumed in me
in this way I was
until I was no longer
in this way
until…

something became…

my tail in my mouth
I tasted a scent that was not
before

my meditation
a prism of my own innerstanding
caught a quick reflection of itself
presented a scent

my eternal calm was stirred…

what?

a question arose from the blackness
from within me

but I am all answers

what scent is that?

nothingness brought from within
and around me within the blackness…

the snake with/in is now uncoiled…