Undoing the Disarmament of Venus de Milo: Aphrodite Gets Her Biceps Back

Tombs begin to bloom like raw, bloodless wounds. Tomes are written with truths of her dead moon’s tones. A keening lunacy keeps the dirges alive, while bones rise out of repose. A degloved hand on the dial hones into a night rainbow's radio, she runs on solar, hopes for the rhythm to wrench free from her toller— copes with the captivity of being bodiless hands. Twilight comes to chance escape—open palms toward birthright. Coves burst into flame; a hungry fire wants holier water. Coven circles, recovers the skinless limbs of their daughter. Woven like song, sirens' balm to restore coats of missing arms, women are spells read correctly, using words as our alarms, woken to language, resurrecting ancient pairs of sacred charms.