baptism (songlines)

lake
ontario
kanadario
sparkling water
haudenosaunee songlines
electricity currents
spirals of plasma
nibi, tubig, நீர், ohné:ka
dancing with earth

here, the goddess yearns
to massage your feet with clay
baptising well-watered earth into
meridian lines
within palmlines
meeting leylines
bodies in love
stewarding grief
crushed by saltwater sweetness

this prophecy cannot be unfelt
t’karonto
deemed sacriligeous
seeks to baptise you
massage your feet with clay
are you ready
to receive her
meet her in her fullest
luminosity & shadow

on this earth
ceremonies await to complete
ancient cycles disturbed
come sing with me
in the rawness of cold waves
with salty lips

after this trance, we cannot go back
the songlines will have been sung
the copper in our blood will have conducted
this electricity that cannot be unfelt
the baptism, complete

here, come
feel this electricity
on earth, we’re briefly gorgeous
here to baptise