in the sheer delicacy
of the radiance glistening from the autumn's vermillion moon
Romeo and Juliet's
yūgen fantasies were laced in their velour reveriethe hex of their jessamine hearts
became their paracosm
their minds were filled with hieroglyphics
written in Latinthey were painted without their irises
because they showed the symphonies
of their dystopiastar crossed lovers who went star shopping
to find their lost constellations
peering through the mint moon dust
only to find an obscene crater in their galaxysweet lemongrass grew from their apricus wishbones
only to be devoured by the snake
who's venom they drank so willingly