DANZANTE

 

 

...there are cases of sexual mutilation

depicted on some danzantes, 

blood streaming in flowery patterns

from the severed part. Michael D. Coe, 'Mexico'. 

 

 

A mess of flesh of bisected scrotum -

young man what did they do to you?

 

Between your thighs, the cunty

petals of Longley's Sheela-na-gig

 

or the fluttering blossoms

of urethra, stamen-plugged?

 

In Zapotec, English, Spanish, 

the plaque tells your nethers

 

were mutilated: your blood-spurts

for sun. Bifurcated genitalia

 

scraped in your image,

a Rorschach test in stone.

 

Precise lacerations,

serrated-edge bone.

 

{DANCE}

Your fluids are sunlight,

your death no regret

stamp heat on our heads,

you redden my neck.

 

There is no libation of sperm

and rainwater, not here.

 

They call them swimmers,

your brothers that squirm across soil.

 

But you, your passion is erect,

vertical writhings      so they

                        call you a dancer.