Tag: venus

• but bear with me for a few more moments 
  and I’ll hand out the gift vouchers as 
  Mr. uh Shakespeare I think said but
  the blue green green blue colony on 
  the bright carapace of this orange 
  
  a thin layer of dust visible 
  from roughly 2 to 4:30 and we 
  arrive a little later than 
  fashionably and at this hour 
  
  I have some small hope that, but yes, 
  we must soon part and wend our own as we 
  may with no need to decorate this night 
  
  with Venus Mars and the moon as 
  though the curtain had just parted and
  

  January 2, 2026

  moon, dust, night, mars, Shakespeare, orange, venus, hope, gift vouchers, carapace, curtain

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• black
  leaves shake
  a black mood
  back
  to Venus

  (First published in Bones.)

  August 4, 2023

  bones, leaves, mood, venus

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• memory of
  Venus the last
  leaves shiver

  (First published in Heliosparrow.)

  July 28, 2023

  heliosparrow, leaves, venus

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• Venus over my shoulder on sharp frozen earth these uncut toes

  (First published in Modern Haiku.)

  October 5, 2022

  earth, modern haiku, shoulder, toes, venus

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•  if I’m lucky one day these teeth will shatter Venus

   
   

  (First published in Bones.)

  June 28, 2022

  bones, teeth, venus

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• before this morning just the blank blue

  black before the sun fades it back to

   

  the usual but now just feet above

  the broken basketball hoop great Jupiter

   

  and greater Venus inches apart and

  though I don’t know it now the next

   

  few black mornings in dark blue

  cool they will sport in that spot in a

   

  slow silver dance that even without

  my glasses warms my hazy blue head

  May 28, 2022

  jupiter, sun, venus

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