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by Erin Robinsong
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The ecstasy of communication
I haven’t been having, and Venus
The evening star, Queen of Heaven
Is “dry as a bone” David Harry
Grinspoon says in Venus Revealed
Of footage taken inside her “thick and opaque”
Privacy, the Baltis Vallis snaking over southern
Plains, passing massive arachnoids, petal-type volcanoes
In the Delta of Venus winding through plains south of Ishtar
Terra to Atla Regio where bloom lava flowers 100 miles
Wide. Venus is similar in size and composition to Earth
And may once have been more temperate & more lovely
When those Vallis flowed, and flowers not of
Lava but fecundity’s openings opened before
Becoming so hostile, the weather permanently
Overcast with sulphuric acid and 500 degrees
Another way Venus is similar to Earth is
She has about the same amount of carbon as we do
All of it in the atmosphere, cooking once and future
Mere creatures. If we also put all our carbon in the air
We too would cook beyond all life and death.
Time is strange there, a day is longer than a year
And that makes sense to me. What if the body
–What if!!? is a slower flower, rotating the opposite
Way to everything Law while being cooked on Earth
More slowly. As the morning star is the evening star
We were warned by the goddess of love & war & rain
& storms to keep it in the ground of the bend of the world
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. This poem is published in her latest book: Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022 → purchase here
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The ecstasy of communication
I haven’t been having, and Venus
The evening star, Queen of Heaven
Is “dry as a bone” David Harry
Grinspoon says in Venus Revealed
Of footage taken inside her “thick and opaque”
Privacy, the Baltis Vallis snaking over southern
Plains, passing massive arachnoids, petal-type volcanoes
In the Delta of Venus winding through plains south of Ishtar
Terra to Atla Regio where bloom lava flowers 100 miles
Wide. Venus is similar in size and composition to Earth
And may once have been more temperate & more lovely
When those Vallis flowed, and flowers not of
Lava but fecundity’s openings opened before
Becoming so hostile, the weather permanently
Overcast with sulphuric acid and 500 degrees
Another way Venus is similar to Earth is
She has about the same amount of carbon as we do
All of it in the atmosphere, cooking once and future
Mere creatures. If we also put all our carbon in the air
We too would cook beyond all life and death.
Time is strange there, a day is longer than a year
And that makes sense to me. What if the body
–What if!!? is a slower flower, rotating the opposite
Way to everything Law while being cooked on Earth
More slowly. As the morning star is the evening star
We were warned by the goddess of love & war & rain
& storms to keep it in the ground of the bend of the world
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. This poem is published in her latest book: Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022 → purchase here
by Erin Robinsong
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The ecstasy of communication
I haven’t been having, and Venus
The evening star, Queen of Heaven
Is “dry as a bone” David Harry
Grinspoon says in Venus Revealed
Of footage taken inside her “thick and opaque”
Privacy, the Baltis Vallis snaking over southern
Plains, passing massive arachnoids, petal-type volcanoes
In the Delta of Venus winding through plains south of Ishtar
Terra to Atla Regio where bloom lava flowers 100 miles
Wide. Venus is similar in size and composition to Earth
And may once have been more temperate & more lovely
When those Vallis flowed, and flowers not of
Lava but fecundity’s openings opened before
Becoming so hostile, the weather permanently
Overcast with sulphuric acid and 500 degrees
Another way Venus is similar to Earth is
She has about the same amount of carbon as we do
All of it in the atmosphere, cooking once and future
Mere creatures. If we also put all our carbon in the air
We too would cook beyond all life and death.
Time is strange there, a day is longer than a year
And that makes sense to me. What if the body
–What if!!? is a slower flower, rotating the opposite
Way to everything Law while being cooked on Earth
More slowly. As the morning star is the evening star
We were warned by the goddess of love & war & rain
& storms to keep it in the ground of the bend of the world
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. This poem is published in her latest book: Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022 → purchase here
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The ecstasy of communication
I haven’t been having, and Venus
The evening star, Queen of Heaven
Is “dry as a bone” David Harry
Grinspoon says in Venus Revealed
Of footage taken inside her “thick and opaque”
Privacy, the Baltis Vallis snaking over southern
Plains, passing massive arachnoids, petal-type volcanoes
In the Delta of Venus winding through plains south of Ishtar
Terra to Atla Regio where bloom lava flowers 100 miles
Wide. Venus is similar in size and composition to Earth
And may once have been more temperate & more lovely
When those Vallis flowed, and flowers not of
Lava but fecundity’s openings opened before
Becoming so hostile, the weather permanently
Overcast with sulphuric acid and 500 degrees
Another way Venus is similar to Earth is
She has about the same amount of carbon as we do
All of it in the atmosphere, cooking once and future
Mere creatures. If we also put all our carbon in the air
We too would cook beyond all life and death.
Time is strange there, a day is longer than a year
And that makes sense to me. What if the body
–What if!!? is a slower flower, rotating the opposite
Way to everything Law while being cooked on Earth
More slowly. As the morning star is the evening star
We were warned by the goddess of love & war & rain
& storms to keep it in the ground of the bend of the world
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. This poem is published in her latest book: Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022 → purchase here
by Erin Robinsong
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The ecstasy of communication
I haven’t been having, and Venus
The evening star, Queen of Heaven
Is “dry as a bone” David Harry
Grinspoon says in Venus Revealed
Of footage taken inside her “thick and opaque”
Privacy, the Baltis Vallis snaking over southern
Plains, passing massive arachnoids, petal-type volcanoes
In the Delta of Venus winding through plains south of Ishtar
Terra to Atla Regio where bloom lava flowers 100 miles
Wide. Venus is similar in size and composition to Earth
And may once have been more temperate & more lovely
When those Vallis flowed, and flowers not of
Lava but fecundity’s openings opened before
Becoming so hostile, the weather permanently
Overcast with sulphuric acid and 500 degrees
Another way Venus is similar to Earth is
She has about the same amount of carbon as we do
All of it in the atmosphere, cooking once and future
Mere creatures. If we also put all our carbon in the air
We too would cook beyond all life and death.
Time is strange there, a day is longer than a year
And that makes sense to me. What if the body
–What if!!? is a slower flower, rotating the opposite
Way to everything Law while being cooked on Earth
More slowly. As the morning star is the evening star
We were warned by the goddess of love & war & rain
& storms to keep it in the ground of the bend of the world
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. This poem is published in her latest book: Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022 → purchase here
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The ecstasy of communication
I haven’t been having, and Venus
The evening star, Queen of Heaven
Is “dry as a bone” David Harry
Grinspoon says in Venus Revealed
Of footage taken inside her “thick and opaque”
Privacy, the Baltis Vallis snaking over southern
Plains, passing massive arachnoids, petal-type volcanoes
In the Delta of Venus winding through plains south of Ishtar
Terra to Atla Regio where bloom lava flowers 100 miles
Wide. Venus is similar in size and composition to Earth
And may once have been more temperate & more lovely
When those Vallis flowed, and flowers not of
Lava but fecundity’s openings opened before
Becoming so hostile, the weather permanently
Overcast with sulphuric acid and 500 degrees
Another way Venus is similar to Earth is
She has about the same amount of carbon as we do
All of it in the atmosphere, cooking once and future
Mere creatures. If we also put all our carbon in the air
We too would cook beyond all life and death.
Time is strange there, a day is longer than a year
And that makes sense to me. What if the body
–What if!!? is a slower flower, rotating the opposite
Way to everything Law while being cooked on Earth
More slowly. As the morning star is the evening star
We were warned by the goddess of love & war & rain
& storms to keep it in the ground of the bend of the world
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. This poem is published in her latest book: Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022 → purchase here
by Erin Robinsong
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The ecstasy of communication
I haven’t been having, and Venus
The evening star, Queen of Heaven
Is “dry as a bone” David Harry
Grinspoon says in Venus Revealed
Of footage taken inside her “thick and opaque”
Privacy, the Baltis Vallis snaking over southern
Plains, passing massive arachnoids, petal-type volcanoes
In the Delta of Venus winding through plains south of Ishtar
Terra to Atla Regio where bloom lava flowers 100 miles
Wide. Venus is similar in size and composition to Earth
And may once have been more temperate & more lovely
When those Vallis flowed, and flowers not of
Lava but fecundity’s openings opened before
Becoming so hostile, the weather permanently
Overcast with sulphuric acid and 500 degrees
Another way Venus is similar to Earth is
She has about the same amount of carbon as we do
All of it in the atmosphere, cooking once and future
Mere creatures. If we also put all our carbon in the air
We too would cook beyond all life and death.
Time is strange there, a day is longer than a year
And that makes sense to me. What if the body
–What if!!? is a slower flower, rotating the opposite
Way to everything Law while being cooked on Earth
More slowly. As the morning star is the evening star
We were warned by the goddess of love & war & rain
& storms to keep it in the ground of the bend of the world
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. This poem is published in her latest book: Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022 → purchase here
QUEEN OF HEAVEN
The ecstasy of communication
I haven’t been having, and Venus
The evening star, Queen of Heaven
Is “dry as a bone” David Harry
Grinspoon says in Venus Revealed
Of footage taken inside her “thick and opaque”
Privacy, the Baltis Vallis snaking over southern
Plains, passing massive arachnoids, petal-type volcanoes
In the Delta of Venus winding through plains south of Ishtar
Terra to Atla Regio where bloom lava flowers 100 miles
Wide. Venus is similar in size and composition to Earth
And may once have been more temperate & more lovely
When those Vallis flowed, and flowers not of
Lava but fecundity’s openings opened before
Becoming so hostile, the weather permanently
Overcast with sulphuric acid and 500 degrees
Another way Venus is similar to Earth is
She has about the same amount of carbon as we do
All of it in the atmosphere, cooking once and future
Mere creatures. If we also put all our carbon in the air
We too would cook beyond all life and death.
Time is strange there, a day is longer than a year
And that makes sense to me. What if the body
–What if!!? is a slower flower, rotating the opposite
Way to everything Law while being cooked on Earth
More slowly. As the morning star is the evening star
We were warned by the goddess of love & war & rain
& storms to keep it in the ground of the bend of the world
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. This poem is published in her latest book: Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022 → purchase here