15.02.15

Kundiman
by:  Jessica Hagedorn (From: Dogeaters)

Our Mother, who art in heaven.  Hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done.  Thy will not be done.  Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom
never came.  You who have been defiled, belittled, and diminished.  Our Blessed
Virgin Mary of Most Precious Blood, menstrual, ephemeral, carnal, eternal.
Rosa Mystica, Black Virgin of Rhinestone and Velvet Mystery, Madonna
of Volcanoes and Violence, your eye burns through the palm of my outstretched
hand.  Eye glowing with heavenly flames, one single Eye watching over me,
on earth as it is in heaven.