Inkamisana

Stairs & rites
not for the foot

The building
thinks

Angular rock

Green skyscraper

Black ziggurat

Miniature
of time

Made
into altar

Invention
of the night

Sprouting
at dawn

Carved rock
praying
as it buds

Seeking the seed
to sprout!

Saliva
in torrents

Cooling waterfall

You redeem your field

Salt head

Stream
of lights

Double reflection

Stone
& water

The same
sprouting
 

Copyright Credit: Cecilia Vicuna, "Inkamisana" from Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water. Copyright © 1992 by Cecilia Vicuna.  Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press.
Source: Unraveling Words & the Weaving of Water (Graywolf Press, 1992)