Nick of Time

draft

Beauty is embossed

with treachery and loss

still sinks straight up

while falling straight off.

Demons smoke out this hunger

running crazy loose

Beauty tantrums for escape,

Beauty makes for amorous Zeus.

At thresholds, she panics

love estranged is cursed 

rabbits scream holy water,

desperation – wicked perverts.

Old moons defiant — working on