on first hearing its name

by Gabriel Rosenstock


Original Language Irish & English

Dar Óma
on first hearing its name
I wanted its shock
had I found an electric eel
I would have kept it close to me
jolted into awareness
whenever vagueness or revery set it

at the end of my fiftieth year
You appeared like an eel, a naga
from the depths

I bristle like a furry animal
sure of its doom
never so alive
as in the force of Your current
that moves and twists in me constantly
cell to delighted cell


-- from Uttering Her Name, by Gabriel Rosenstock

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on first hearing