SPURNED VENUS

Months now since sex

Ourselves often vexed

Neglecting jealous Venus 

What legs sheath stays between

Kept uncoupled mór capall destriers

Make them bold Marengos open air

As any who would repair what are termed tears

In reality’s fairness should prepare themselves for

Further awareness of a world distinctly uncaring.


Hera hunts lovers making gello ghosts, dead virgins who loathe the fertile

Never-spited Aphrodite diets delights, elides having uprighted on mortals

Single night’s pleasure peerless in salt-measured realm, making a hell

Everafter, leaving laughing raising unto pinpricked matte of night, shell

Of dome diamantine, where damascene sandals rest.


What are hidden dreams but fears of open failure 

Cupid sent concupiscent dreams, concubines at Bathsheba

Waking pale, heaving

Unshaved, handback ironing chin static sound made

Ran glaive to it tight, pollarding, pruning glade

War, dead choking bays

Nameless nameless Homer’s blameless

Primed ear queer lissome voice insisting shamelessness, stern wisdom

Akin to rebarbative hissing

Barbiturate hymn liminal, barbarous from forms scabrous.


Skin leather scabbard, trapped inside white, red-crossed tabard 

Far from Lollard, knowing tricks tongues lost since Babel floundered

For him alone, sotto voce, designed to mollify and constrain

He wondered, perhaps at her bidding, was he insane

Victim of himself, awaying further vain things kings and wings

Frightening world of feigned things, brain’s veins are with played 

Suspicious of everything, save that which concurrent views conflate

Placated by sating heroin, stories of preferred heroisms

Anything which is us stirring, redolent cooled experience

Reconfirming old hatreds, such since ancient word first muttered.


Resplendent at breast yellow celandine splayed celebrating sullen queen

A Maedbh in fury, maven’s opposite

May queen who scolds her officers

Offers orifices to Gods amongst fluttering oriflammes, Crom-claimed hills

Mystery moon marmoreal carapace, marmaladestars locked constellation

Antient light’s drowned conflagration journeys distant to shine mayhem

Great Mayan veil, Inanna’s gates unscalable

Atop them Itzpapalotl makes eyrie, obsidian butterfly

Lepidoptera night adopted

Fox cunning night

Fox culling knife.

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