Skull Piano

Skull Piano

Odin hangs from the street lamp…
his skull is a keyhole

'o let us all pray...

...your skull turns to rain
and falls in fierce droplets

upon the ivory keys

piano fills the room...

and sins are buried;
(here the father killed the son)

the coffin is put to rest
in my head

piano,
wipe away the birthmark
on that dark man's head

'o let me pray...

the night in my jaws,
I am ready

women,
come with your fingernails
come with your moons...
women.

my skull feels like rain

'...that jazz kills the day.

Amen.

[note: Legend has it that Odin offered himself for sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. For nine days, he hung upside down from the World Tree. Wounded and without food, he meditated. In the end he saw light and acquired knowledge from the runes that had fallen from the tree. The HANGED MAN card in the tarot deck reflects his story.]