Free verse № 62539
Mercury
Hobnobbing around the Mercurian noon, with
only a thin whiskey-coloured veil
to waylay it,
the Sun must burn carte blanche in the sky,
growing white-hot and
even larger
as the day grows, spitting, burgeoning and
flaring out at the seams
like an infrared sunfish, gravid with roe.
6 comments
1: In an advanced stage of pregnancy
What, no dictionary? :)
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