triumph of venus

chop that trumpet call & reassemble it

as a lunar tune or anthems in reverse

 

from the cosmos's imagin'd corners

choirs home in on yr inner ear

 

all hollows mourn

(in this simplified ecology of sound)

 

like a supermodel on a scallop shell drawn by dolphins the wind thuds in her ears

but you hear nothing

 

her page boy blows a conch

for the battle fluids of the republic

 

punch drunk in starlight

this scene is a city

 

sequestered, dark

sparkling