No nettles within the gardens,
No ¹needles within the haystacks.
Who made for them new navels
And showered with salted-wine what would not leave us.
Who thrushed through every grain of every chaff,
Picking out & crushing that which was rotten.
We who made the meadows free!
Who liberated they who were encased in ²amber;
Rain, Lightning, Thunder.
Who slayed the ³Fearsome Hydra.
Slew the ⁴Slithering Gorgon.
They who silenced the speaking weeds
And the whispering flagons.
Companions of the ⁵Dragon.
Who caused the Titans to bleed.
Who stitched the wound,
Who cauterized it,
Who bandaged it.
The first of us to understand,
What was the seed.
1 - Pine needles, pine snakes.
2 - Those who evolved or changed.
3 - Parasites, disease, pestilence, sickness, et cetera.
4 - "Satyrs of Cybele" - Ignorance & arrogance, especially that of which is brought on by things like psychotropics.
5 - Electric, in the context of thought and expression by that of the body's muscles. Science. Communication or illustration of one's consciousness.
