Madame Sosostris
“The doom mark
Crawls down the wall”
—Sylvia Plath,
“Contusion"
The night is a woman—
The woman is a witch
The poetess wagers—
Beyond the beyond
Beyond Ariel—
Beyond Las Vegas
Her Yankee chutzpah—
Her White Goddess panache
Pushing her teacup—
Over the Ouija Board
Seancing the dead—
Like Madame Sosostris
Playing out the cards—
Ted’s the Devil Card
Her own infernal deck—
Of unearthly Tarot cards
And when the dead speak—
She’s ready for them
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