Intro to … Susheela Raman

19 April 2011

No amount of YouTubing could’ve prepared me for the ultimate experience of Susheela Raman … raw, gutteral, earth mother, inferno … a night to remember at the QEH …

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Open
wide,
split belly womb burst
room birth
frees
a gutful
echo,
round vowels
embody
woman
grieving,
heaving song
through landscapes
immersed
in cries divine,
gutteral valleys
cloaked
in arcs of wing
scarlett
beat of heart.
Vows
break over
mountain summits
like suns,
bodies of hope
surrendering sky
and she
all untamed beauty
spun
before me.