In rites it was performed:
A sensual dance,
a calling, a gesturing, an offering, an invitation,
a sensual play of an entangled dance
the sensual play interrupted by an oppositional force
given a spoken warning,
a clarity of boundaries,
a creep, wearing a path, bringing gaze and presence unwelcome to the occult ritual, and muttering utterances
invoking a force unwelcome.
misogyny, in this form, a predatory objectification of bodies and play.
A fear underlies that if this force of misogyny realized the forces against it
it would turn even more sinister, more realized of itself, as gender imposing violence, of its position in this battling of energies.
Realized, the forces against it would face a conscious gender imposing violence. A fear that the force may attempt to snuff a flame that burns so brightly, or to control the flame.
The play stops, a dance to a new rhythm,
This creep presented themself as offering
willingly giving themselves to ritual
a new dance.
An attempt to down the offering is made
The attempt fails
the dance continues
the offering hails false utterances, bringing forth the fear of a flame extinguished
a retreat
the location of the rites change slightly,
finding others performing the occult practice in safer numbers,
they begin again, interrupted again, they clarify boundaries again
the offering retreats
a flame is lit,
the offering brought a fire
atop the hill
to burn the witches,
a flame to set fire to the faggots,
a bag of trash on fire thrown at the usual recipients of this eradicatory violence.
a continuation of the opposing forces of gendered order and its dissolution
a new ritual begins,
a hunt,
a dance to bring the offering down,
to do a blood ritual,
to offer bones,
to offer blood to the fallen,
to use hair, garments, teeth,
for strength, clarity, protection,
the offering has a gleen of a talisman of metal scraping on the ground, gleen
ing silver in the moonlight, an utterance,
Another talisman revealed,
The forces shift,
the offering retreats,
chased feverishly it finds safety in the light of the city,
safety in the guardsmen who hunt witches.