by Jana Astanov

Man is the Sword. Woman is Aurora.

When the sword enters the atmosphere of planet Earth, it has the potential to draw new symbols across its skies.

Those symbols belong to fate.

If he draws pain, selfishness, or death, the aurora may be extinguished, temporarily.

Is a hundred years only a sliver in the planetary cycles?

Like the eclipsed moon after midnight.

When the electromagnetic pendulum of the cosmic scythe enters the planetary sphere, it may take away some of our joys, our loves, our hopes.

But an eclipse does not destroy the light.

It rearranges the bodies between us and the source.

For a moment, darkness acquires architecture.

Then the bodies move again.

To be human is to believe in one’s own strength and the return of light. 

Always towards the light.

About Jana Astanov:

Jana Astanov is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, co-founder of CREATRIX Magazine, &founder of Red Temple Press & Speedball Books. Born in the Masuria (Mazury) Lake District of Poland and based in the United States, her writing explores myth, ecology, eros, ritual, and the living intelligence of language, where botanical, celestial, and human worlds continually transform into one another.

She is the author of six poetry collections: AvantGarden, Antidivine, Northern Grimoire, Sublunar, The Pillow Book of Burg, and Birds of Equinox, and an artist book Spirit Told To Come Here.