What did the Aztecs sing when
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What did
the Aztecs sing
when
their dancing
God was dying?
They burned in
the light,
dropped mountains,
drank rivers,
with stone
smashed
teeth
on the Horizon.
And I
since childhood
feared
to ask
at the pharmacy
why
there is
on my soul
a snowdrift.
One shaman
through
a familiar
therapist
prescribed
vitamins
that themselves
after
midnight
climbed into
my mouth.
Anxiety
grew,
the Aztecs
kept singing
at a volume
where current
cuts the hearing —
steeped
in the voice
the air
could not feel
its feet —
And then
He
woke.
And became
Everything Around —
having drunk
time,
fallen from
Earth
into the boggy
Sky —
My
Dancing
God.