Venus is symbolic
of beauty, pain
art, polish. I will
die for her in webs
meant in dirge,
ruffled in thickets
a soul eats
tumbleweeds. adored
favored in season,
restored, made for
essence, passion,
rebirth, hells, increments
of wars, casual
goodbyes, until, a
fever hits. I have
studied her greetings
in blizzards,
times of turmoil, made into
a pretzel:
epiphanic eyes, oceanic skin
behavior sly, as
comics, sweet grace
torn in twain. I will
die for her in webs
meant for running,
churning like ghosts
most incredible
deaths, most cryptic
winds. I will chase
blue heavens, art
will sit in
stillness, I will not write
until hearts burn
in extinction. I
shall ache cyan
tears, fluorescent flame
abased, abandoned,
whether she cries.
more flies will
swarm, a body in rotting
I will never love
like living again.
sure across
wilderness, too often a
cause, at deer
eyes, at lemur reach, to kiss
in pains. certain
Venus, cause of internal
violence, needing
succor, abolished in
myth. to come
again, indelicate force.
