Horse's Gait 2012

The Indian Woman
was a Witch Religion
wanted to remove, she
wasn't put in place by the
celibate Church and Inquisition,

The Witch's
fee was a dollar
a month for life, the
client who didn't pay,
she collected anyway,
as an inducement a pan
full of blazing gasoline,

she was
not sorceress,
satanist nor Christian,

while loving
her black, she
branched off from
the main stream of
witchery, she was an
inheritor of pagan tradition,

they
pursued all
kinds of heresy
thinking they found
it, she remembered
in 1484 came the bull
of Pope Innocent VIII who
defined witchcraft as heretical
heresy, the Catholic Church's declaration
of war against practitioners of that heresy,

little did they
know she traded
her soul in the afterlife,
they said she blended
sacrilege and obscenity
all too well, even aroused
some of them, they wanted
her rid, she would not allow -
being sprinkled with holy water
or touched with a crucifix,

The Indian Woman
was a Witch Religion
wanted to remove, she
wasn't put in place by the
celibate Church and Inquisition.

Horse's Gait 2012
she'll appear, gold
and silver will announce
her arrival in the form of
coin and bridle, stabled
in the West and fed runes
of a polished gem brown the
color of apple seeds,

they will
pursue all
kinds of heresy
thinking they found
it, Maya will discount
it, she remembers when
Buffalo Springfield played
For What it's Worth,

what was
it she traded
her soul in the
afterlife for?

Truth.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist