From My Father

Sion Prior

Sion Prior

from the murky ocean of chaos that is 
my father
I arrive a giant golden goose 
cackling
and giving birth 
to the shiny world egg
atop a primal mound.
 
and
 
from the cloudy formlessness 
of my father, 
I arrive as a mighty multitude 
10,000 things 
colour, form and warmth
come into the world. 
 
and
 
from living on the lining 
of the wide hole 
of the depthless void
in my father's heart 
I creep out, grow delicate, transparent wing membranes
and fly away.

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