Whatever you call it

Slough as in
Despond volcano rim
unruly Dank swamp sirened
Rock peat–
Bogged the desert-rats' truck
Stuck black dog the
Quicksand riptide and currents and
The city's bright lights drawing
on The ant river humped
the bigger Beasts
down the snake slumber
Digest the goat wave monsoon
shadow,
Doppelgänger, tea-leaved warn, ide as in
March Portent, full-moon the
women knitting In the anteroom.
The gods' malignant
Streaks

You took the reins humped
your own rock
Up that hill
You swirl
the stewed leaves

With the teaspoon. Well, didn't you?

tired tied tried tried
again
too

covenant, The law, fathers'
sins meted out upon
the children knotty tangle
In DNA, at Delphi told the
Prophet living in a cave tempting
Snake little Johnny made me do it
electric shock treatment
Your mother, your mother, your mother

Whatever you call it, what it is that calls
In the silent night or in the supermarket
Whatever it is is calling, calling, calling.