Hesiod Embraces The Jar of Themis

[Lanny Quarles]

Hesiod Embraces The Jar of Themis
(A Metis-Mixing By Pan-Pandora)

stomached by
ambivalent jar in gift sorrow
in night sweat by mixed blessing fires
blessing
in fire by mixed
by mixing fire
blessing

[pan (flute)]

pandora
where mixing fire
by sweating they embrace
the artificial creature
ambivalent jar
mixing pandora mixing
by fire
jar fired blessing
what men embrace by mixing
fire by blessing fire
pandora

not a woman but a jar
but ajar the mouth
of opening the mixing
the fire of the opening
of the jar
the ambivalence of the opening

they have fled
when the opening was made
when the fire by mixing
blessing had fled by 
fire blessing ambivalence
they had fled
by tradition it was gone
like a fire 
suddenly gone

something after eating
what is left in the jar
the jar ajar
fire fled fleeting a foot
what glinting
what sits upon the bottom
of the jar
of mixing
what ambivalence

whatever it contained
as goods
whatever contained 
whatever
hope pandora mixing
names fire mixing glinting
fleeting they have fled
a fire by blessing a jar
a jar

by pharmakon the sack
the jar a sack by mixing a fire
by blessing a sack a wind
will flee the jar
what he gave
what she gave
the jar
the sack of the wind
of the pharmakon
whatever fled the jar
whatever what mixed
by fire
sorrow by all 
none spared by fire
by ambivalent blessing of
goods of the jar ajar
simply good
round sweating
wine

whatever left the jar
a sack
a wind
was sweating wine
the new wine
a shield of music

[pan (flute)]

pandora by hesiod
by curse
by seeing a curse

by the fire 
by the filters
by the fire of filters
mixing the blessing
all-giving

by opening the prison
of the jar
by opening it
by breaking it open
by a mallet
by a tiny mallet

so small
whatever the hand
in the landscape
by will
by fire
of mixing
hope
blessing
soil
by mixing the soil
whatever is still
left in the jar

how hesiod would embrace themis
as pandora and man embrace
by fire
mixing
(untranslatable)

pharmakon
where the sweat
of metis
fills the sack

whatever the herm of salt
whatever
whatever mixing
whatever
whenever
whatever remains in the belly
it cannot end
end by mixing