{"id":1878,"date":"2018-12-17T07:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2018-12-16T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T21:53:25","slug":"1878","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Enceladus by Deborah Davitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/900px-Enceladus_from_Voyager-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1881\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/900px-Enceladus_from_Voyager-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/900px-Enceladus_from_Voyager-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/900px-Enceladus_from_Voyager-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/900px-Enceladus_from_Voyager.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Against the face of night, a white moon hoves<br \/>\ninto view; a hostage, bound and fevered<br \/>\nby a titan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gravitic caress. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to him, trammeled<br \/>\nby a fellow captive\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jealous chains,<br \/>\nher inner ice melts, yielding<br \/>\nto the sweet torment<br \/>\nof gravity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exquisite duress,<br \/>\nbending and quivering,<br \/>\nbuckling and shivering.<\/p>\n<p>Four parallel scars rake down her belly,<br \/>\nleft by a celestial tiger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s claws;<br \/>\nshe bleeds ice-mist in torrents,<br \/>\ntrailing veils of crane-down behind her,<br \/>\nshattered wings.<\/p>\n<p>She wraps herself in her mist, pressing snow<br \/>\nto her breast to conceal her ravaged, pockmarked skin,<br \/>\nbleeds out her essence to the void,<br \/>\nheedless in her ecstasy,<br \/>\nleaving a trail of frozen tears behind.<\/p>\n<p>Those feathers that do return to her,<br \/>\nas she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slowly devoured by her lover\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<br \/>\nungentle embrace,<br \/>\nfall back to her skin like knives of cold stone.<\/p>\n<p>Self-destroying, self-creating;<br \/>\nblinded by her rapture,<br \/>\nshe whirls around her beloved,<br \/>\nentranced; while within her laboring core,<br \/>\ndragons struggle to birth themselves<br \/>\nthrough the caesarian cuts<br \/>\nleft by the tiger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surgical claws;<br \/>\nstrive to shatter the shell of their mother,<br \/>\ntheir ice-white egg.<\/p>\n<p>The heat within her heart<br \/>\nthat engendered them,<br \/>\nwill, in time, spell their dissolution,<br \/>\nwhen she gives herself up to her lover entirely,<br \/>\ndissolves herself and spreads out<br \/>\nas a final shimmering ring<br \/>\nof transitory ice.<\/p>\n<p>And so, with each pass<br \/>\nof the orbital dance,<br \/>\nthe universe pauses,<br \/>\nwaiting to see<br \/>\nwhat kind of fabulous monsters<br \/>\nhave been born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the face of night, a white moon hoves into view; a hostage, bound and fevered by a titan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gravitic caress. Responding to him, trammeled by a fellow captive\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jealous chains, her inner ice melts, yielding to the sweet torment of gravity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exquisite duress, bending and quivering, buckling and shivering. 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