Summer Solstice is Coming

given a double whammy
they wanted to double down
on double talk
   in the
torrid gust

the summer solstice
   its sundry insectile eyes
   seething with sultry scorn
in this weather channeled
   source of telegenic storms

seasonal shifts are
  lost in translation
poisoned neural flowers
  the root of
rotting neurosis
 the Earth becomes
Venusian

 profoundly tragic
hypersonic horses
 fly out of the digital barn
they sail over the
  northern hemisphere
firing blinding arrows
 into the dead brains

The Tropic of Cancer
  and Capricorn
relax in the tropics
  the Sun lords it
over the equator
  precession calmly proceeds
(23.44° is the Magic Number)

All is well
in the best of all
 possible
 flatlands

--NJV 2022(rev.2024)