Orion's Moon

A cloud of blackbirds
Flowed like a river,
Cutting the Kansas sky in half,
On one side
The imposing Sun,
On the other
The eclipsing Moon,
I sit in meditation
Green Tara before me,
“Om Tara Tu Tara Ture Soha”,
The Sun in one hand,
The Moon in the other,
At midnight
My head becomes the Earth,
The shadow of my being
Passes over the Moon in Orion.