divination: catalyst
"this is not really happening you bet your life it is" --Tori Amos
Pretty
shock
If you told me about your love all your words
would be small kind falsehoods.
It's a small, bitter, and unruly oracle,
an inner crystal ball with workings disguised as saints.
Darkling falls a carol
bitter as chocolate
hungry for pain
to tell me I live
change my tactics.
give me a truth and I'll give you
a penny for your thoughts.
It's an unruly oracle.
It tells me what it just made happen.
1995