Pythia: the process.(Brief Article)(Poem)

From: The Literary Review | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information 
Pythia: The Process 
 
First the slow ease of weightlessness, 
then her lifted body woven 
into a cold chrysalis of fern. 
 
Next the spiced scent of burnt laurel, 
then a secret smoke of barley and pine 
ghosting from a cleft in stone. 
 
Now again the ice gleam of wings- 
the melting pull of translucent butterflies 
moving her to a tripod, 
 
now the bleating sacrificial goat, 
then her own limbs trembling as 
the freezing ...

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