The Dolmen Kiss

1 The Dolmen Kiss
Chapter One of Farewell, Eurydice

“I like it hard.”
Ava turned on her side and cradled her lithe naked body along 
mine. She angled her head on the pillow to register the effect of
this tacit declaration. Her gaze was cool and level with a glint of
curiosity in the corners of [...]

Refuge and Regeneration

SEXUAL MAGIC AMONG THE TRIBES OF KALI

Kalikas are a strange brood. Kali’s children, you might call them. Though she is a barren mother. Consider this paradox for a moment.
In Hindu folk religion of Dravidian origins, the Mahavidyas are ten emanations of Kali, including Mahakali as the first of the ten. These infernal witches grant all [...]

Kali’s Game, 1

AMOR FATI
Gaming is the supreme metaphor for human behavior in Kali Yuga, especially in the last two centuries until its end in 2216 CE.  In the extreme condition of these times, any act or choice or venture that cannot be stated in terms of a game will not be either understood or mastered.  In Kali’s [...]

Dedication

Farewell, Eurydice

A  PORNOGRAPHIC  NOVEL  OF  LOVE
For Emma

Orpheus the shaman defied the powers of the Underworld to find his
woman Eurydice and return her to life, but when he looked back to
see if she was following him out of the realm of the dead, he lost her 
forever.
 
How do you know when [...]

List of Conversions

Refuge for the Unborn
Yeats Converted: Vajrayana in Verse
forty poems plus one
Poems in chronological order, following Yeats’ collections
Titles are for conversions with (numbers) indicating
the original poem in the Collected Works
1893: The Rose
1    The Tantrika and the Terton (18)
2    The Ruse of the World (20)
3    In Misty Oddiyan (24)
4    [...]

Room 502

Room 502
 
Strands of auburn hair upon the pillow
noble profile in October light:
How did we come to this, two mystics
spun into desire who merged and sank
together, ravished and undone?

Your gaze is turquoise-shattered light
igniting my desire, but can the craving
I attain by kisses spilled along your neck,
tongue-prayers pronounced upon your breast,
cause any moment to [...]

A Pilgrim in Pays Cathar

A Pilgrim in Pays Cathar
for Emma
Whose pale eyes aching blue

drink light from Cathar skies,

and wander at the brink of love
as by the ramparts steep and stark

a pilgrim stands defiantly above

this folly and this human fear -

except the fear that love denies?
The ocean rushing with rough clouds

on Monsegur, at [...]

Refuge for the Unborn (35 – 40)

35.  Two Songs of a Dugpa
(C.W. 186, Two Songs of a Fool)
I
A sleek black cat and snow-white steed
eat by my terrace
as they need;
and both confer upon my face
the dignity and elegance
of sentient creatures steeped in trance.
Arising from my kind of sleep,
I contemplate how they reveal
the way the silence runs so deep
and soft throughout the [...]

Refuge for the Unborn (28 – 34)

28.  Tandem Desire
(C.W. 143 The Wild Swans at Coole)
With Jeanne, in conversion
9 November 2009
Andalucia
The leaves turn in their autumn beauty,
The beachside paths are clear,
November’s sky mirrors the sea
and keeps its silence near.
Along the low and lapping shore
Glide tandem swans in love.
The untimed moment now arrives
Beyond all count or measure,
The seer who reveres this love
Counts [...]

Refuge for the Unborn (21 -27)

21. Consort Yoga
(C.W. 98 Against Unworthy Praise)
One heart in wholeness cannot preserve
itself, yet it can break in two
and joined in twoness, so reserve
the passions of the pair that through
exchange of word and glance
there runs like ‘silver on a trembling leaf
one vein after the next of chance
emotion, feeling [...]