Before Man Gave it Name

A collaboration piece by Sigh, Ontology & Ramona Moth

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type written by Sigh, Ontology. collaged by Ramona Moth

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“Before Man Gave it Name”

the wilderness silent
that cold and 
crooked night

Saturn,
dwelling in the firmament
bore witness
to the first man
formed from dust
and returned to it. 

below

Shachal descends from high places 
into the cold,
into the black.

He moves without sound
as water cuts through rock'
and teeth through bone.

Ayalah thirsts after the water brooks 
so thirsts death for life.

Shachal hastens not
the blacks knows him
yields to him;
though it too will take him
as it took his father
before Man gave it name. 

Saturn,
beheld Shachal before
and shall behold him again
and shall behold the last one
descend from the high places
into the black
and none shall follow. 

the stars quiet
their light trembles

the black is older 
than chayyim
that did rise from rock
and name itself. 

Shachal does not attend it;
the nefesh in them;
familiar

water stills in channels;
wind withdraws.

Ayalah lifts her head 
but learns only her echo

and Pluto waits;
impending dark. 

Ayalah's hooves 
trouble the stream
the valley stills

Shachal breaks the silence,
stone loosed from the hill,
teeth find the throat
where nefesh keeps.

and above the valley
Ayit circles
patient. 

Shachal feeds
in high places

Saturn returns to midnight's cloak

Ayit descends 
to what remains

Pluto receives nefesh

and the fire breaks the eastern black,
igniting the firmament;
the celestial king in his chariot
rides upon the mountains,
the sun in his strength

He commanded the heavens to pour forth
and purple spilled upon the high places
and gold into the valley
and crimson bleeds in the still water
and the heavens
open blue above. 

and below,

the first man beheld this
and he called it sunrise
and this he called good.

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