Voice / Wight
Call me obstreperous, and my
Ear homes in on “strep”:
Soft-spoken guest and
Fellow traveller who
Turns on their guide and host -
Strife now inscribed on
Being’s very yolk.
Primal din issuing from
Throats that swell into
Throttle and song thrush.
Close kin, Sanskrit and
English wedded “voice” to “wight”:
Grendel’s harrowing
Stoked and bellowed out of the
Cosmic spark of OM.
Smoked-coloured petal,
Throat chakra receives
Deathless nectar and splits it into
Pure form and
Poison. When closed, a
Person decays, transmutes into
Undead wight.
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
Photo:©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2024
Highly contrasted monochrome image of sculpure "Die Verdammnis" ("Damnation") by Permoser, 1725.
Exhibited at MdbK in Leipzig
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