sunset before third sacred medicine ceremony

into the darkness to encounter my light

"the parrot" yagé, liquid tobacco and rapé snuff, 

a bucket of special purge tea and a central fire 

sometimes lit, mostly not, always trance dancing its heat and light

the sweep of condor feather cleansings and mapacho smoke

icaros and fireflies, a dazzle of moon swept 
by fast-moving clouds and waves of energy

numinous visions and whispered lessons, 
outpourings of emotion and aqua de florida

a soul, once stretched, never returning to original dimensions

another eternity found in a single night