by Ramprasad Sen
Why go live by the Ganges?
I’m going to sit here
and chant Mother’s name.
Why leave home
and live somewhere else?
At Her feet I have
hundreds of Ganges and Gayas.
Ramprasad says:
There’s shelter enough
at Kali’s feet.
I’m not the kind of a son
who calls a stepmother
Mother.
—from Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair, by Leonard Nathan and Clinton Seely
The Cosmic Mother 