A Huge, Gigantic Kali

A huge, gigantic statue of Kali Made from clay, How magnificent and stupendous, Terrible and horrible the image Of Kali, Mahakali, Karal-vikral Kali, Dreadful Kali With the sword and other weapons Into her hands And with a white crown over head And the red tongue of the lips Held in shame or anger And Shiva lying beneath And one leg over his chest As if in dialogues with stars and the moon With the garland of the heads of sinners Symbolic of cataclysm and the night of creation, Not only dreadful, but blissful too With one of the hands blessing.