Reversed: Queen of Cups, food as medicine
Notice knots in the narrative, “many myths
end with the promise that whoever hears them
will be healed of sickness” Not forgotten:
old promises, snake oil sold as medicine
Mother of Cups in the North, we have missed
the medicine of your narrative    {serpents
need to eat}    Feed her your head’s violent
memory    {normates need to breed}    Dismiss
reversal of promises & missing curatives,
who notices holes in the old narrative    Resist
feeding serpents your stories    Who buys them
expects the performative, misses the sickness
in being sold gold as medicine

© 2019 Roxanna Bennett