Neanderthal Messiah — 135

Ayahuasco Territory -II

[Near later Sedona | Comanche | Tombstone | Roswell | White Sands ]

[Attendant:] ‘The vortexes plume today, Highness.’

[Quetzlcoatl:] ‘Stuff more tobacco — in me.’

[Attendants unction the slit leaves.]

[A mushroom beer with mercury tincture

In cool clay damp goblet for this

Karmic traveler to slake.]

[Turquoise rattles as he summons the will

To stand outside his palanquin.]

[Bearers were to ignore his staggers, or falls even.]

[Approaching the jungle’s leafy north edge

As if by appointment -

He kneels with the emerging jaguar,

In its reflecting eyeglare, copper in twilight

They mirror in movement, pose, agree.

Then from a pocket he offers the cat chocolate -

Weaves through his tongue a thorned rope.]

[In their ceremony of lifedeath.]

…

[Vatican II Rome, 1962:]

‘The Holy See recognizes Father Carlos Crespi of the Ecuador Mission.’

[Father Crespi:] ‘We are ecumenical…’