#obeah
my mother told me
you christen a home
in her island-country
you take a chicken
behead it with a sharpened knife
slit it cleanly across the neck
let blood splatter untainted
earth and burn incense
let the burning bush
stink and permeate the freshly
erected walls, seep into the wood
seep into the tiling
purify it
make it your own home
somehow
somehow
i think that's beautiful
Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017 at 6:21 PM UTC