Gender In The Mountains

 

In the beginning, at the whole,

wide, indefinite root

my free male ancestor

spawned in the element hydrogen.

His bud, shoot and seed

is now the authentic sex

of all wild animals;

he is my full, unbroken brother.

That other dog in mud time is cared for,

all unrestricted form and fabrication,

an effect we can call back, something

those in fashion desire.

 

This is the common stock;

it is the bug, the cause of our gender

and is mostly simples.

I am unspecialized

so I know I will live again

with the wild swans of Blackwater

and be numerous.

Gentleman, degenerate genius,

gentlewoman, get in line.

We are going there.

We have a place to go.