Ask Asklepius

 

Asklepius: the god of medicine. 

Asklepius had a daughter who was the goddess of universal remedy: Panacea.

 

 

Asklepius had a daughter who was the goddess of cleanliness: Hygeia.

 

When you say the k of his name, you are touching

the back of your lingual apparatus to your velum

 

 

How much history was saved in sound

across all these unrecorded years?

 

Asklepius they say had his ears licked clean by a snake

and while the snake was licking the snake was whispering secrets.

 

 

I don’t know

how old these columns are, but the temple outside this frame

is at least 6,000 years old

 

 

I do know

we each had mothers’ and fathers’ mothers and fathers

on earth at that time, and

 

here you are, a resurrection

 

“a face in the crowd, a petal

 

on a wet black bough”

 

wait —

           what?

                     wet

 

(with life)