Venus
Carnival lights and sounds
fill the night
beyond the bridge
before and after fireworks,
We wait for twinkling tentacles in the sky.
But the silvery evening star,
small & moonless,
shining in a luminous afterglow.
Earth's sister-twin planet
home to her own
Guinevere & Aphrodite
depends on us
to reflect her beauty.
Joyce Kessel grew up crossing into Canada to go to Crystal Beach which had a terrific roller coaster, The Comet. She has been published in Kind of a Hurricane's B, Point Mass, and A Touch of Saccharine. She is getting refueled at a writers retreat this summer in Woodstock, NY and is a co-editor at Earth's Daughters.
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