Tuesday, April 9, 2024

On the 99th Day of the Year 2024, the Total Eclipse Briefly Turned the Sky into One Velvet Violet Bloom

 

If words were garments and garbs, what would

poems then be, especially poems of love?

 

– May I borrow the bar behind your back?

– From behind the keister, behind the stern?

– Where the pilot must stand to steer the ship

and where too the part most withdrawn sleeps,

 

that other side, the most forbidding one,

with which the Moon invariably turns

to the Sun to let him see the secret rump

and which she keeps aligned—but occult

 

from anyone else during the eclipse tap.

– Is there a line that could be joined

and rung into one—like eyes in eyes

 

which morph the days into shortest nights?

– With Venus, else unseen, to shine beneath.

– From that deeper end, once barred by light.

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