Mercury inconjunct Neptune

By Dorothy Lune

INT. MERCURY– NEPTUNE'S GLORY. NOON.

LADY BUG

Little music played for me / in a circle of people,
I withdrew / holding my hands together /

humming to every edge of a hexagon / I held a
candle to my eye, felt its warmth / & then

my arms bent backwards. Lighter fluid, a display
easel, burlap painted yellow, hexagonal

reality— / I am not my mind I am not my mind /
psychologically lodged in the lungs / &

then my arms bend backwards / & then I cough
& then relieve myself / & then, I read
​
a book on how to sing to hexagons. / The world
is much different then it was now.

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Dorothy Lune is a Yorta Yorta poet, born in Australia. Her work has appeared in Pinhole Poetry & more. She is compiling a manuscript entitled Lady Bug & can be found online @dorothylune.