Ganymede Has Auroras Glowing in His Captured Air
The largest moon of Jupiter is male,
Much larger than the female ones. Its weight
Is less than Mercury’s but then the scale
Of Ganymede is larger. Zeus’s mate
Forever clings around his greatest god
And spins forever in his grasp. That spin
Is not as close as female moons, more awed
By Jupiter, because of greater sin.
He weighs much more than females, Io or
Callisto. Jupiter can feel him, though.
The heavy, massive maleness urges more.
He is of course more distant as his beau
Than priestess or a princess might succeed
In being. He fullfilled the god’s great need.
~ Phillip Whidden