December 08, 2005

The Rumpless Ones


Back then only Sun Woman had a vagina.
Only Sun Woman and her brother Moon Man
had anuses. They traveled, not knowing their privilege
until they came upon a settlement. Outside the igloos
were lumps of caribou breasts and rich suet --
the villagers had to suck their meat without swallowing
since there was no way for them to expel it.
Babies back then were cut from the womb, the mother
sewn back together with braided caribou sinew.
Sister Sun and Brother Moon wanted the kind of love
siblings could not give to each other
so they looked among the people for companions.
Moon Man, to consummate his marriage, took a knife
and gently slit his wife in the crotch. Instead of blood,
a vulva and vagina appeared. Sister Sun
was the first in the village to give birth
by breaking her water and going into labor.
Her baby was the first of the village to have both genitals
and an anus. The women of the settlement sang their praises,
wielding knives between their legs. Then, men
and women alike seized meat forks
and stabbed themselves in the rear.
Those who hit the right places gained anuses
and the party began. People, like none other before them,
gobbled down food and gulped up love.

From HIM-WHOSE-PENIS-NEVER-SLEPT--Denise Duhamel
Poetry based on Eskimo mythology
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