Prometheus' Eagle

An Ode to Uranus

I believe I wrote this poem around 2007.

I offer it to you now in light of the Jupiter Uranus conjunction taking place this weekend, since Prometheus as an archetype can help us examine both the bodacious audacity and the reckless folly of our more Uranian-inspired impulses.

prometheus' eagle

this angling cunning
feeds the beast
to keep him quiet
lest his call awake the shadows
of zeus' discontent

this frozen moment
a terror right down the middle
holds the breath in panicked understatement
as the swoop of wings descends
again

this cliff, this buried place
shelters the beast and his endless covet
yet i will not leave these chains
the spoils of my defiance

i would still

steal

f i r e .