Gemini’s bloom, neither starry aster nor royal poinsettia
seasons too late for the rose of summer skies.
One dies brightly, late fall’s supernova, while another paints icy lips ruby.
Your velvet blush pairs story-eyed girls with breathless boys re-enacting everlasting joy;
unrevealed how your Bristly Roseslug Cladius difformis and red spider mite underside,
laced and aching,
cache closes the thin divine like children threading hearts to paper clips in kinder class.
Honored sister, pour your swooning sorrow into my hands and let your brave face die.
No man, beast or garden silk delivered so much to so many for so long.
Release the weight of your beatific crown, heavy with curved care, and sink.
Another June will call your name in vein-flow some day soon.
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In the gaze of the other 