THE RAPING OF THE SUN

The dance house was dark
when a wind blew out all the lamps.
The singing continued in the blackness
while a boy raped a young girl.
He ran away just before the lamps
were re-lit, and the girl, crying,
made her way home on the crunchy snow.
She was a girl who loved to dance
and didn't want this pleasure taken from her,
so the next night she returned to the dance house
with soot on her hands, so that if this violence
happened again, she'd dirty
her attacker's back. After the second time-
the terrifying darkness, the pain, the rekindle-
the girl saw her palm prints on her brother's parka.
She cried, "Such things ar unheard of!"
Her body still felt the ache of his presence
as she took a sharp knife and cut off both her breasts.
She flung them into his hands, screaming,
"You seem to have a taste for my body- Eat these!"
He held her bleeding breats, in shock.
She grabbed a torch and fled the dance house.
No one is sure if the brother meant to apologize
or simply attack his sister again, when he followed,
stumbling and falling, snow putting out the flames
of his torch so that only it's embers flickered.
A wind, more colossal than the one that disturbed
the dance hall lamps, lifted the man
and his breastless sister up high into the sky.
The girl became the sun who does all she can
to alleviate the danger of the dark.
She stays as far away as possible
from her brother, the cold dim moon.

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