THE SUN HAS SET/
OR AUTUMNAL
Equinoctial.
Color rising to the temples
like a shy woman ahead of her
music
lifting her skirt to avoid a
scorpion
a tail of six segments, the
last—cradling the sting.
Parthenogenic reproduction starts
following a final
moult to maturity continuing—
the scorpion's exoskeleton is thick
protection, two
eyes on
his crown, two to five pairs, to stud
his frontal corners,
how far back and how far front—for
the soil he dances in
?
Equinoctial. Not the end of a world
but summer’s
bright body stilling, until a
day and a night equate.
What is it I don't know about
dying?
What is it I don't know about
predatory
arthropod animals of the order
Scorpiones
within the class Arachnida?
Courtship’s breath starts
with “Promenade à deux.”
A male grasping her pedipalps with
his own, the pair
perform — Dancing, darling,
dancing —
They will separate, the
male will retreat most
likely to avoid being cannibalized
by the femme, sexual
cannibalism is infrequent with
scorpions, all
possess venom, all
use it to kill or paralyze their
stilled darling—
so that it can be eaten. Fast-acting.
Effective
breath,
a gorgeous fall.
THE SUN HAS SET/
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