all three previous poems (1.0&1&2) are part of this combined poem. The titles and italics form a whole, but can also be read separately.

Venus
Spoiler
varnished souls
no one asks why
varnish
she’s porcelain now. painting wet obsidian dark
on cracked skin. ornamental, those lines that cover
her waist. but how far forgotten does that go.
that never stay warm.
what do you smell
she wears her shadows like perfume
coying, with flair, it burns when you come near.
raw, pretty wine on torched flesh.
the chaos she hides. for her shadows smell like smoke
and she can’t swallow all things that she chokes on.
she wears her shadows like perfume
coying, with flair, it burns when you come near.
raw, pretty wine on torched flesh.
the chaos she hides. for her shadows smell like smoke
and she can’t swallow all things that she chokes on.
no one asks why
varnish
she’s porcelain now. painting wet obsidian dark
on cracked skin. ornamental, those lines that cover
her waist. but how far forgotten does that go.
she keeps lighting things
inhale. exhale.
she in love with the noxious
but the noxious don’t love her back.
just lives in her lungs,
breathin’ old names in morse.
swirls on her tongue,
sweet before it festers.
she calls it coping
deep in the ghosts of souls.
huh- blow out the smoke,
cause it calls her carcass.
she in love with the noxious
but the noxious don’t love her back.
just lives in her lungs,
breathin’ old names in morse.
swirls on her tongue,
sweet before it festers.
she calls it coping
deep in the ghosts of souls.
huh- blow out the smoke,
cause it calls her carcass.
that never stay warm.











