Nov 1, 2004

There are a couple of narrative sections in Astrometry Organon which provide a kind of skeletal framework or context of the rest of the stuff. This is one of them, my own retelling of the Perseus/Andromeda/Cetus myth.


MENKAR


Said beauty shackled by
maternal hubris, a blithe
flicker in the great dark
creature's eye as
gorged on ruin it lumbered
toward she splayed
on rocks, unabashed, as tho
the matriarch can't know
what beauty's for, or even
chains, for that matter for what
are chains but mute reminders
of the terror of circumstance,
what horror or what folly
or coy indifference of she
who took the base beast between her
lips, real horrorshow, & that
happy demon who curdled &
with a shrug snapped those
same chains, & there on those
rocks she felt the kiss
of the suckers on the small of her
back as the razed lands wept
for the spoils of arrogance
& then the one hotter than said
nereids heaved the whole muddle
away under the rocking
of that negator, liberator
never a father's kin, a karma
lumberer, what beauty knows
is how trite conflict melts
in the crucible of a red sigh
& the creature knew what
beauty knows, who knew naught
but struggle now naught
but love, the 2 of them there
like a fuming reactor as it
is said the parched land would be renewed
by those groans, transgression
erased by beauty & its double
entwined on porous rock, until
Perseus, prig, came with blows
of his father's father's
father's sword: pretty jock
darling of Athena who cleaved
the purring beast in 2 &
so she savage beauty let fall
the bruised tentacle
from between her breasts
& took her place with him though in
her slept still the seed of the Other &
slept beside him who belonged
to the land & its wars
& she who belonged to no-one
& the ghost of the monster
who belonged to her & to the porous
stones & the screaming waves
of the sea.

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