MONTROSITY, The Goddess Suite

 

The goddess of Modess
                                          Creatrix of Dominatrix

No trace of mind
In the divine undine,

Most feminine of oceans....

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Calculate the speed of waves in a puddle,
The weight of light,
Her internal reflection or darting fish thoughts,
The coral bones her algae emboldens—green flashes/blue flashes,
Seaweed negligee
And shipwreck memory.
Lace her tail in the Milky Way.
Her serpent head peering above a perfect deep,
Foamy crests—the ocean’s vagina dentata.
Open your mouth to taste!
Our teeth: vestigal Thalassa!
Iron bride
Spacious alchemical vessel for trancing
                                Pelican and serpent            
                                                           Ö

 

The great wheel or antithetical moon,
Antibiotical moon, symbolic colloquial moon—
             Rules for finding the true moon, for recognizing the false moon

 

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There’s the giant devilina who murders hirsute mermaids,
The one who steals lobster and love from loathsome fishermen
The spirit who licks untidy bathtubs
The rain-making female nymph
The rain-taking MILF
The shape-shifting hag who lurks in the dunes
In the dark, near the teakettle sorceress
And the demoness of octopi—
The fathoming ocean
Spills its magick trickery
Look!
Fountain’s flossy architecture breaching on vast expanse
            Amorphous (Morpheus’s surge)
And the mechanical gravity pump (the heart)—

           Mountain of paradise, fountain inferno.

(Her aqueous descendants out the window: Fukushima butterflies /
Beating the air with their grass-blue wings)

 

The mutated butterfly as the initial condition that caused the tsunami

 

The tsunami that devastated the forest in her dream

 

A million stars crazed by a hair’s breath

 

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Like munching on sun’s shadow,
                                         The tail end of infinity

 

 

 

                           Look! A ship in a lightbulb
                           Sinking at sea, shinning
                           Under the peony moon.

 

 

 

Martine Bellen's WABAC MACHINE was just published by Furniture Press Books. Her other poetry collections include TALES OF MURASAKI AND OTHER POEMS (Sun & Moon Press) and THE VULNERABILITY OF ORDER (Copper Canyon Press).

 

 

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