Incestuous Tantalizing

            Incestuous Tantalizing

A planet has two moons.  The moons are twins,

Two brothers.  Moons are never perfect so these two

Are not identical.  The one has fins,

The other scales.  Each leaves a residue

Upon the planet’s sky, two different tints,

One gloss like ocean-glitter making shapes,

The other leaving taints like fingerprints.

Their planet feels their glowing dual scrapes.

The pair rejoices in their duet song

That almost causes fragrances above

The clouds.  The singing spheroid lights prolong

Their serenade, the strangest courtly love.

  The planet wishes kisses from this pair.

    The hoped for lovers orbit her despair.

~ Phillip Whidden