"THE DIMPLES OF VENUS"

Venus, Goddess, Mother of victory, keel of human life :
soak me the sugary spit of your gorgeous Dryads !

cohort of Vulcan and Mars !
Erycina ! ! Caelestis ! Anadyomene !

Come, appear ! upon the quadriga brilliant, scentful :
rose and myrtle, evergreen wreath, virile womb of glory !

from the chariot, the stallions abreast :
blind me with the diadem and strike me with the scepter :

redden the green moss along the blue river
with the drippings of your royal blood :
Menarche of dawn, halo of life, triumphal new beginning !

soft peach velvet warmth, come, Great Blessed Genetrix :
the earth vibrates like a lyre-string
upon your brittle ivory

admire this Olympian body !
flesh of marble, cunt of flowers ! our Venus is resplendant
upon these Pleiades !

spray lactescent upon the firmament !
empty your chalice upon these milky stars
and fiery swarms of flaring rocks burning in their blue flames

beauty, fineness, love ! depths of lust and madness,
the human slavery under yokes of it,
sidereal in cosmic grace, boundless in implication,
ever-lasting, eternal, insoluble
undeniable, immutable inherent artistry of creation
aesthetic of the Gods, a gilded pallor of paradox,
an ever-deepening red-glow inferno of beauty :
burning rivers of bubbling tar and angry, hissing fumes...

submerge me and drench me in the liquids...
remind me that all ignoble evils
are but freak mutations of your absence...

bask me in the serene smells of wisdom,
dull me with inebration, overdose my body

melt me in your auspicious vision,
most imposing, most brilliant ever-gleaming,
your heralding of hope ! melt me
as a flake of snow to a fire !
melt me in piquant gourds of colocynths

dismantle me in the beauty
of the Callipygian idol

the faint vestiges of my once charism
is trampled below the goatfeet of Pan :
i surrender ! i yield ! i acquiesce !

catch me like a fly or a midge or a gnat,
entrap me in these filaments of beauty

Cloacina ! drink now the sludge of these inverted rainbows !

whirlwinds of furious fire lick the palaces of Jupiter :
i leap forthwith into the lurid flamery...

"CIRCASSIAN SHORE"

a white swan glides amorously
suspended in invisible leagues
of heaven

floating

soaring

triumphally across the cloudery

nacreous waves breathe forth
its rhythms down below,
rolling into glaciers of gold,
below suns of silver, embered skies,
gulfs of foaming life

marl and silt

sun and steel

love and beauty

mute trees sway in the wind
cradling the beautiful nests
of seagull mothers

every drop of the great blue sea
is pristine and pure
tonight

clysters of serenity ! sea of topazes,
majestic dance of belugas !

a perfect marine azure
i dissolve into

once upon the time
we lived here

i shall never forget
my origins