“I will drink. I will eat. Let the mourners come up with him.”

I still really like how this piece came out, and I was incredibly pleased to be asked if it could be reprinted on the site. It probably is the closest I'm ever going to get to writing a full story about that particular characterization of either of those figures. (Other version of Geshtinanna appears in "Kouros" in Singing Innocence and Experience. I wish I were writing more prose. I wish I were sleeping more.)