Saturday, September 22, 2012

The fan is on, the wobbling light fixture

The fan is on, the wobbling light fixture
makes noise with its chain. Venus is appearing

before dawn in the east above the pasture
filled with cows. I think I'm hearing the weather

change and shuffling veils—just the allure
of her is unbelievable. I pondering magic

to win her, rhetoric that might help conjure
the beloved. I look up at the fixed stars

and feel my motion, I am lost to the lure
of her soft body, words and thoughts. I come

to the next canal, I see the circling vultures
announce death. The morning star disappears

but wanders unseen in the demure sky.

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