seeking kali
ray johnson
kali michael sims holiday
Say Goodbye to the Night
+
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...
