Birthing Orion

By Dax Murray

Too fondly have I loved these stars;
all these galaxies we once called ours.

A beautiful love story in verse.

The relationship between two goddesses is tempestuous at best. Seya is the embodiment of a galactic creation and Tia of cosmic destruction. They create and they destroy and then they do it all over again. Seya and Tia use their divine magic to make pulsars and nebula, to set planets spinning around stars and bind a galaxy together with a central black hole.

But when one of Seya's favorite stars goes missing, she blames Tia. What was once a symbiotic cycle of life and death becomes a game of broken hearts and promises betrayed. These tensions and insecurities are explored in sonnets and villanelles; the arc of their love tracked in meter and verse. These poems touch on queer love, betrayal, trust, acceptance, and forgiveness cast against a backdrop of stardust and celestial detritus.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Kraken Collective
• Release date: Oct 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386746652

Dax Murray

After realizing their dream of being a curmudgeonly hedgewitch in the woods of Western Pennsylvania was not possible due to the construction of a Dave & Busters, Dax took up a new form of sorcery, where they whispered to rocks in arcane languages and taught them how to spy on you, colloquially known as software engineering. After an epic battle between the forces of Ethics and Student Loan Payments, Dax left that behind to join the magical order of word-placing. Today, they can be found waiting on the two gods (ie: cats) who have allowed them to live in their abode and use their word-magic to make others cry. Dax studied political science and creative writing at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania and is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association. When not writing, they can be found at the Crystarium in Norvrandt.

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Birthing Orion

Dax Murray

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The Kraken Collective

For my siblings, blood and chosen.

Especially for Chelsea and Hunter.

Birthing

Orion

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Not Yet Made

We are

dust and hydrogen and light racing across the skies

we have not yet named, not yet made.

We are not even disentangled from each other yet.

I name you and you me.

the creator and her lover,

the destroyer and her paramour

Seya. Tia.

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Coalesce

We lacked order,

but we preferred it that way

quantum fluctuations

we expanded

we contracted

we created and destroyed in rapid succession

the desynthesized parts leading us to new creations.

We heated

We cooled

No laws applied to us,

as we had yet to create them.

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Fundamental Interactions

You and I emerged

in stages and with hesitation

We created gravity

heavy between us

we drew each other closer

We made electromagnetic interactions

we could not escape each other

with force we found ourselves attracted

And our mistake, our folly

we made cosmic inflation

exponentially explosive

we continued to expand

away

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Proto

We

Reviews for Birthing Orion

[sashastorylover · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was an alright read, I thought I’d more excited about lesbian space goddesses but the book didn’t leave much of an impact on me.