look out upon a reddening sea
breathing in the tides
as Apollo rises
and Venus receives him
in the reaches of paradise

draw deeply and exhale
expelling the stale air
of a mocked morality
where hominids dwell
in the Greek tragedy
of their fallen godliness

we are carnal vessels
commissioned in Eden
dressed in unholy vestments
keeled for deep water
and seeking a New World

lust is the wind
shredding our sails
desire is a hurricane
and this heading
is dead reckoned
into her eye