Lila Joa Cancellieri lila.el.joa@gmail.com
THE WATER DOG
I was born in a house by the ocean in 1982, the year of the water dog. These are my poems & photos.
She awoke from a dream
The gods fell to sleep
Time turned to dust
It dirtied her feet
She pulled up the roots
She fell to her knees
She sank in the mud
The roots, they ran deep
The earth, it had bound her
A heartbeat, an anchor
A gate and a keeper
The sap in a tree
Her father was a fire dog
Her brother, a golden dog
She was the water dog
Born from the sea
A dark lotus opened
In the belly of the ocean
She awoke from a dream
As the gods fell to sleep.