The Primordials Resurfacing

Diana Valeria

I: First Flower Dance 

Step beyond expectation, 

that which terminates the bloom 

and cuts the harvest short. 

Wander into the overgrowth, 

that which timelessly endures 

for want of a timeless existence.

Pluck the loftiest dream alive, 

cultivate it in defiance, 

lose your shrinking-violet petals 

and violently spatter the sky 

with vibrant hues untamed — 

then rest, knowing your dream is nigh. 

II: Sympoiesis 

artistic initiation to the otherworldly mysteries 

brings societal somnambulists to wild, wonderful

wakefulness — igniting dormant passions 

blood splatters on a blank, desperate canvas

synchronized heartbeats to the vibrations of 

sky and soil, that which sustains itself 

create or perish; express or destroy 

my sole mission is this: 

to shamelessly enjoy being and becoming with 

every moment I used to waste.

III: Persephone 

But maybe there is deliverance to be found in destruction.

Divinity in decay; the fall of leaves and civilizations.

Beauty is terror, final spark in every rotting womb 

Inevitable ending, rending, descending 

But there’s no sense in pretending, ever lamenting as we burn 

That Persephone may never return.

IV: Enter the Labyrinth 

if we’ve been so hastily stitched together, 

why do we keep trying to fix ourselves 

with old threads already severed, 

fraying figments of forever? 

what are we left with now but needles, 

bleeding through every blessed pore? 

we must re-weave what we’ve torn through 

or wait for something more, just wait 

then leave our shells behind 

break the twine, let it all unravel 

and back to nothingness, to the first thread, travel. 

V: Fire to Fire 

set fire to fire, put me out of this frame 

for the sake of forsaking simplicity 

subtlety-smothered, desaturated flame 

surge forth in synchronicity 

wolf of light, you crash through the gates 

behind which the starry bull waits 

but you will not end me before I begin

a stately ditherer retreated hastily 

then another withering cheat 

stepped down from office 

and shattered reality 

upside-down brings downside-up 

force confrontation; define “corrupt”

 shadow is bitter light slackening 

tyrant is ripped to shreds 

we will meet them where they are this time; we are outsiders flooding in 

with intent to disrupt, for upside-down brings downside-up