The Chastisement of Frontier
Show me a hole, and I will crawl into it. Whatever subterranean bite awaits will not deter me. There are whole industries that are created to turn one back from the underworld. Tunnel past the warnings of skeletal remains. They died trying to go lower, but I bid you to go deeper. Those prepositions know nothing of the other. Have you ever tangled yourself in the root system of a great oak? Learn to breathe slower and see with your finger tips. The dirt has no real quarrel with your burrowing. If it resists you at all, understand that somewhere along the way, you settled for going lower. Figure out what the badger discerns by instinct. The first couple of feet feels like hard work and is rather tough on the muscles. But as soon as you forget the seduction of topsoil, the sediment moves out of your way. The dead do not reside there. Neither will your body find repose. The same mother that grows corn, wheat, grape vines, and every variety of melon will perform a similar kindness toward your soul. Thick darkness is not always a terror. Before any flower bathes in the light of a rising sun, a timid seed is found being coached by the deep to split. Prior to any transaction with pollinating bees is a concealment of tendril and bulb. The terms of midday are not confidential. The noon will call out to the locus and the romantic alike. It will call out to professional shears and the nibble of anxious rabbits. Downward goes the man of transformation, so that when he resurfaces in newness, every mouth is unable to shut itself. Surrender to the uterine clock with each tick of her guidance. A firm maternal embrace loosening at the speed of your readiness. She will file away every future plan in the cool of her undiscovered stratum. Above is filled with markets, wars, impossible relationships, and health routines. However, the deep annihilates convoluted paths with a ubiquitous fullness. Nurse upon the breast of Persephone. You will not improve upon her sustenance. All that the surface offers to pass through your teeth is a bargain.
