The Covenant Poem by L.B. Temuco

We share a covenant
of darkness, of beauty
that is unutterably silent
We hide ourselves in clouds
We reveal ourselves in clouds
And we rain on the throne of the earth
We harvest jewels from the scales of fish
And we bathe in their returning light
There is, my love, a rainbow of our revelation
a serpent that bleeds in tides
In its coiled dance it raises itself to the moon
One day it will return and swallow us
With its sacred victory
An eternal kiss made wet by blood