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Monday, March 20, 2017

At the Beginning

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