BEFORE BEGINNING

 

Where Earth's blinking eyes contracted
into cribs of solid water,
seasons bearing bladders of ocher
released their studded glandular contents
raked with dusky amplitude.

Upon birth,
foetal sentries separated deadened lead
from morning's soul, pressing, holding, curling
into thighs, tapping on chambers of coiled
dark desires, cold as a skull.

A massive girdle of groiny mysteries,
the slippage of subordinated shapes,
rotated a patchwork of vacated faces,
a void whose sinews terrified walls– aslant anatomy
harmonizing offerings to the Other, informing beings
organized into a knotted world that dreams in glimpses,
breaking limestone tassels into erections.

The Fathers fumed in menstrual chambers
of egg-like gaps, scrambling the howls
of actual animal substances, a bestial wallowing
in the jelly of generative space, and retrievied
a topology so warped that the staked out appetites
of sharpened boundaries
                                        looped.

Circling Death's headless spools with fingers,
the lines originate from densities
that free unnameable alignments,
crossing ice-fearing skin with navel endurances
beyond ourselves.

Finding our animalhood's dark trail strewn
with mysteries that had failed, hairless, befallen,
breathing the oxygen of an arrogance that has no past,
we began to trust in the clutching of divisions.