Ganga Jump
1.
Bhageeratha
At the end of your lives you are many
Midwives blow kisses at you wide voices in the wind
Your chill eyes shun revolving doors you sing backwards you want to be one
You are finally here
The thick crust churns
Pressing mothers far fathers great grand undone
Your throats must be clenched
Ears echo-y
Put down your stack
Have a bath
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When sixty thousand voices said
Only purity clears debts
Who is Purity
2.
Ganga laughed
Earth to froth & sky to smithereens
Old man death I'll bust his head
Ganga laughed and jumped
Ash wish
Ash wash
A funeral called a waterfall
Entering territory she filled
With weight and water
Spirit to giant at once
Grew round her
From her
Girth rippled firewater
Tail trailed smokewater she
Could not feel her ends
3.
Sunsmear
Windwhip
Rockrawl
Thunderplause
Airsplinters
Milkcliffs
Lightning's free tributaries
Water braiding rockfaces
Deadman's float
Combed penumbra flowing
blue face
A new car's about to crash
Earthlings ran
Rang bells in temples
Clouds locked
Shiva smiled
When Shiva smiles
The fragile face of Earth tucked into his womb
For He who wears Nothing
Sky's his Scarf
Wind's his Wish
4.
Strident Ganga
Babe not stormrider
Swept into a clutch of herringbone hair
Daddy Everest choked memory memento mori and invoked The Bull
Nandi's tail took sliver moon and fastened Siva's hair
Space shored
Ganga rose
Looked into mirrormoon and saw flow
5.
Out of a round mouth
Round water
Coconut crush on stone
Brilliant inauguration
Bubbling eggs uncountable
Legs flopped on the rocks
Milk curd honeyfingers
Flowed over the eyelid
Ushered by brows
Dripped off overhang
Ran on nosebridge
Verged at chin
Long neckjar
6.
Within distance in the quiet kutirs
Children of fire glazed over
Voices melted
Ears opened
Went over to the new pure
And took a dip
7.
Hushed mountains
Mute cows
O happy ditches O happy loos
Shhhhhhhhhhhh
