Inari Ame-no-Uzume no Mikoto Marishi-ten

* Inari *
Androgynous goddess of rice & worldly success, often seen w/her kitune (white fox messengers who ward off evil); she sometimes appears as a snake, dragon or spider & her favorite offerings are fried tofu.

* Ame-no-Uzume no Mikoto *
Shaman goddess of the dawn,kagura (dance for gods), & revelry who helped lure goddess Amaterasu & her light from the cave of the heavens w/her comical naked dance & a mirror she had placed on a tree, thus ending the period of darkness on earth. her other ama-no-uzume (dances of uzume) include one to wake the dead & for planting seeds.

* Marishi-ten *
Independent & sovereign godess of light & mirage, protectress against all violence & peril, guardian of all nations. she holds the sun, moon, & blades in her 8 arms, has 3 eyes, & grants invisibility.

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each week I seek
to deepen my peepins
into these deep-ends
in seekin, I'm sneakin
a peek in between
and again


and melt my resolves
to pools of apparitions
wavering, silenced


where hemlocks' inky silhouette
on night-to-be ripples here, invertedly

where winds sing rasping rhapsodies
amidst marsh grasses & holly leaves

where heron rests & is alight
swift, powerful silent in her flight

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Thank You

Friend, you are new breath
Exhaling life's sweet secrets
Into my felled sails

Glimpse

City's angled sides
Catch beauty in little bits
Filtered, light sings in

Secrets of the Universe

Learning is osmose
We become as One with it
To know of essence

Teatime

Oh, most happy day!
But to sip of the garden
Is to ice my cake