Music & Poetry Mash Up: Alphabet of Mother Language - Anne Waldman + Say Goodbye to the Night - Kail Baxley

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Alphabet of Mother Language

If Kali were a car, what kind of car would she be? A Batmobile? She, as

primordial vehicle. She with emanations to wiles of any mother. She with hair

on fire. Mouth a flame with wrathful breath. This is the feminine speaking, this

is the mouth and body and curse of the female. See her on the street, in the

subway, at the endless-wait terminal. She waiting. Many storms of waiting.

Just below the surface. Red eyes, gaping mouth, lolling tongue. Definition in a

defining way the deafening roar of Kali which is the roar of Time. She is Time.

And She devours Time. Naked Time. Naked Kali. She is an open system. She

eats energy and manifests energy. No concept need apply. She is the flickering

tongue of Agni, fire. She is the mother of language and mantra. She is all 51

letters of the Devanagari alphabet, each letter a form of energy, a twinge of

energy, a torque of energy. Each letter a star, each letter a sign, each letter an

empyrean gesture, each letter a captured sound, each letter a resolve, each

letter a rune, each letter a whiplash, each letter a scorching brand, each letter  

a flame, each letter a twitch, each letter a bundle of firewood, each letter a

thirsty pioneer, each letter a charnel ground, each letter a rice harvest, each

letter a cooking pot, each, each letter a treasure, each letter a tide now rising,

each letter an eolithic moon, each letter a sun in shadow, each letter a love

affair, each letter a possible mistake, each letter a symbol of change, each

letter a wheel, each letter a wheel of change, each letter a triumph, each letter

a solar wind, each letter a storm, each letter a cameo appearance, each one a

treaty, each one a place where plutonium safely resides, each one an

hedrumite resolution, each one an epitrope, each one an orchestra of many

gongs, each one an evening, a morning with snow, a morning with scorching

heat, each one a necessary tribulation, each one a massacre that will be

revealed, each one a torture that will be revealed, each letter a bamboo

thicket, each one a candle lit to all the deities in all ten directions of space,

each one a pillow, a mat, a blanket, each one a water buffalo, each one a

bride, each one a hag, each letter a palpable hit...