Changing of my God

I have beseeched you in temples, churches and ashrams

touching my forehead to your pedestal.

I have prayed to you for mercy

stripping my broken heart and body before you.

But God, look today

with your blessing,

the Goddess is dethroning you

from my heart.

And instead LIFE, in all its

mesmerizing mutations

from sapien to digitata to lumbricus

have become my Gods.

What a delight to barter

one God for 8.7 million.

The goddess is now a millionaire

Rejoicing at every possible future heartbreak

to stretch my heart into the shape of space

so I may love all of my Beloveds with completeness.

Kâli Sapien —  of the planet, by the planet, for the planet.