Venus

          by A.E. Jenks

      Hours of leaky meteors
      Hound the oceanic part of my mind
      that sinks for snowy, white soldiers
      Back from horrendous scandals-

      nights with sharp-toothed jaguars
      in their pillows.
      The nearest saxophone miles away.

      you live there like a
      Black dollar rogue
      Lurking in
      that part of me that is Venus

      Rocking metro phases
      through the thoughts
      I never figured were pliable.

    
    

    First GRIST On-Line publication, 1996. © 1996 A.E. Jenks