Hesperus and Salome
Jude
I am the twilight
and youŽre dancing in me
draped in starlit jewels
fanning the seaŽs clouds like veils
for your crepuscular consort
Consecrate me goddess
blood-let the burnt dusk from my veins
and offer the white moon
as sacramental bread
Commune with me
IŽll confess everything to you
and all the nocturnal secrets
to lovers who lose their heads
enraptured
in the light of our eternal tango.
