Phanes is the intersex creator deity of
the Greek pantheon.
At the Beginning
I asked Phanes
How was it, at the
beginning?
And Phanes answered:
It was like cupping
the world in my palms
Like breathing the
sacred breath
into them
The only source of
light in the world.
I
in the black
darkness
My great snakes
coiling about me
With this tiny
impossible spark
Shimmering, its
surface shifting
A complexity beyond
imagination.
My wings unfurled
And my daughter,
Nyx, curled around this new world,
cradling it
I could let go
My heart breaking
with fear and joy
Giving everything
for the hope that
this life would
survive
