Inanna

I step hesitantly into the water;
it stings my body, brisk in the morning,
and a silver mist surrounds me.
Under water my feet lose their grounding
so I curiously dip my head in.
Engulfed by stars
and floating serenely on an ivory cloud,
a lavender sky surrounds me.
Voices whisper ambiguously;
high and low, they drone .
Now I am on a moist shore,
back where I began,
and somewhere someone says
INANNA.