Crossroad promise (Odin showed himself to me)

I should have been a water diviner

Always find where it is hiding

Rods cross like rite-potent roads

Right potent if you know the right poem to recite

By the roadside in sight of His Odious Mightiness

Through ode’s dictation signal want of conference

In my mad want I became self centred

Went with my wand to the asking place

The grotto where He Who May Be Asked basks, his dank bastion

A stretched rock seemed posed, anguishing

Some earned strike’s arrival, sky rivalled a rose that night

Beyond language, road rose to meet my rover toes

Beyond the tribe’s understanding, beyond an overdose

I went there and there he was standing, doe skin book in hand

In dark robes with one eye only, Odin woodscented.

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