THE REJECTED LUNA
Deep fish is Under Lake food, bigger, darker blue, that lives where Oak roots go deepest and where First Mother water becomes First Mother blood.
I knelt at edge of White ice island where my palms had been in white smoke that turned black smoke white, where Jax White Guardian hands had been over mine, white claws over white claws, White Moon on my neck pulsing with his white lines, and I stared into fishing hole where white claw held edge.
Water in hole was glowing blue water, First Mother water that could be drunk again, water that could make more full anointed if other half anointed dared to drink, water that now bubbled not from heat of warm white flames but from something huge moving und