{"id":1960,"date":"2012-10-23T23:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T23:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=1960"},"modified":"2012-10-23T23:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T23:33:24","slug":"rose-mary-boehm-1012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/rose-mary-boehm-1012\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Mary Boehm, 10\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars and Constellations<\/strong><\/p>\n

I
\nOrion is hanging upside down.
\nThe ineffectual hunter, powerless.
\nThe Horsehead Nebula throws
\na velvet glove at Betelgeuse who
\nrelaxes in a lazy hammock watching
\nBellatrix who is forever
\nflirting with Aldebaran but
\nnever getting anywhere near.<\/p>\n

There is a book for boy scouts
\nexplaining how to find the South Pole.
\n\u2018Begin with alpha and beta Centauri.
\nDraw a line between those two until
\nyou extend it to Achernar and advance
\nto the Southern Cross.\u2019 And onward.<\/p>\n

Would that Taurus were conspicuous
\noverhead. Aldebaran (the hunk), Hinds
\n(bewitching and delicate), then the Pleiades,
\nthe Seven Sisters:
\n\u2018an open star cluster containing middle-aged
\nhot B-type stars\u2019.<\/p>\n

II
\nDo you remember Luana Anders, pretty and blond,
\ngot her big break in Reform School Girl.
\nEvelyn Ankers did a stint in the Wolf Man.
\nLucille Ball toiled in largely uncredited roles
\nuntil the mid 1930s, while I remember
\nadmiring her cousin Suzan Ball in black&white
\non my dad\u2019s cigarette pictures. And let\u2019s not
\nforget Eva Bartok, Zsa Zsa\u2019s little sister.
\nExotic Acquanetta, born a Mildred, was raised
\nin Pennsylvania. Mari Blanchard wasn\u2019t sure
\nabout her birth date (or her name), and it is said
\nabout Joan Bennett that \u2018when she divorced
\nher first husband she turned
\nto the family profession\u2019.<\/p>\n

III
\nThe bone orchard contains
\nlights, eons ago extinguished,
\nstill glowing in that knowing way
\nwhen sex was not as yet a cheap
\ncommodity. Luring, alluring,
\nthe pose, the wink. The pout
\nperfected. It\u2019s all rotting now.
\nSoon it\u2019ll be dark in the orchard,
\nexcept for the occasional irrlicht
\nzigzagging across cyberspace.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm lives and works in Peru. Two novels (COMING UP FOR AIR and THE TELLING), as well as a collection of her poems (TANGENTS) have been published in the UK in 2010\/2011. Many recent poems have been published in a variety of US poetry reviews.<\/em><\/p>\n

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