With the Furies

Again,
She had a party.

The Great Witch,
I mean ...

Kali , and Odin
both came; crowns
and garlands were Hers,
and monsters,
and Beasts that
dwelt among the flowers,
with sharp, azure eyes,
and tiny, fuzzy,
ticklish ears.

I saw a little one, hidden
amid the grass, enjoying
the sight of great and
terrible Gods, capering,
as children.

The ouroborus, not minding,
straightened, and slithered
past smiling Sister Snakes
and girdling, Midgard Serpents;
the blossomed, not minding,
merely there.

But Guardian-bird, Bright-plume,
Strange-beak, No-Raven,
(as opposed to, say,
kabuki-raven)
was mortified.

Wait, the One-eyed
One cried,
it's over! Again!
The bird has spoiled it,
for Everyone.

Again ...