Breath of Dawn (for the Full Moon in October)

 

Brahma-Muhurta in yogic meditation practice is the hour before sunrise when the atmosphere is most highly charged with Prana, spiritual energy, and the ideal time for meditation. It is also known as Nabasvan, the Breath of Dawn.

I am addicted to light.

I drink from the oblation

of the moon.

Forgive my habit.

Naked I wake after midnight

craving stars, stealing

downstairs barefoot,

tiptoe past the refrigerator

with its cargo of pudding and stew,

wander out to the edge of the forest

making footprints in frost,

brittle grass crunching under me.

I sway hollow as a dry reed

quaffing the whirlwind of stars,

turned by the Godslow galaxy, 

face a grail up-tilted, 

eyes half closed, open brow, 

throat, belly, shamelessly imbibing 

the secret nectar of blackness,

until my roots have wound and tingled

down to the center of the planet,

and my crown is glittering Andromeda.

Wasted by luminosity

before it is even dawn, 

I pray, O Mother,

witching breath of Nabasvan,

hour when silence turns to milk 

and mushrooms quiver up

their nipples of loam, feed me 

your dagger of angels

sheathed in moonbeams,

for I am addicted to night.

Image: MysteryKids Digital Art