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Epithets

Cicadas weep their rhythmic longings
for meteor-showered mornings in June.

I weep with you, sewn breast to palm,
to tired nymphs, their tender glances,
rose-cheeked with Hera.

You are all beginnings, sweet iuvenis.
Nectar-tongued, framed by the feminine
gentle misunderstood mother, Aphrodite.

Painted indigo crushed on the roof of your throat.
Circle of pine and fire smoke.

I hold you so, from you, I rose once again.
Your waxing moon bitter ash of victory.

Entomb me in sacrilegious death.
So estranged from femininity.

He caressed me as divine Eros and I.

A covenant in wishbones,
new mornings and blessed June.