2 raven-blood, dog-blood, heated just below boiling the formal ceremonies of owls after dark salt pearl, rice pearl; bud from a particular time of year old love, a lozenge dissolving slowly under the tongue smear of red earth and water, controlled uprising of bees prayer summoning what you exiled, naked, to ice or snow lie down and let the hands of the ancestors rove get up as a lioness to shred the sheets you soiled * prescriptions; Tagalog