- Orion on the horizon,
- descending . . .
- There is a relation:
- the indiscriminate beast-kill
- & the rape,
- Orion doesn’t see it.
- There is a war within—
- Horus & Set battle . . .
- Orion doesn’t see it.
- The triangle of his heart grieves . . .
- He’s under siege;
- as he drinks the strange god’s cup,
- Dionysus pulls him apart
- to find his allegiance.
- He’s under the influence,
- feeling wise beyond his years,
- he does “what comes natural.”
- Uninitiated,
- the rape was initially unconscious.
- What followed, inevitable—
- for his compulsions are loosed;
- we know, for the climax
- is not other-world ecstasy
- but blindness
- The rape of Merope becomes
- the rape of queen bee, our Mother, the sea . . .