Poem – After the Horoscope (By David Russell)

After the Horoscope

So Mercury backtracks

Till Equinox wakes him;

So Mars huddles his cluster

In Cancer’s shadow.

 

The Moon’s in Virgo,

Northern node prevails

 

No more a saviour, I care

As vile invective touches inner shells

No more shall hollow ring

 

Out there

A rubbish-tip of meteors

Fast monuments and postures

Float clearing –

What craters next?

 

It’s partly done with mirrors:

Self-images, chimeras –

Then care, but not beyond yourself,

Not to self-idolatry.

 

The cared-for never rule through images

But live, themselves.

 

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