Flumes Vol. 4: Issue 1, Summer 2019 | Page 28

Lilac Jupiter, My Cosmic Lover

By Fanni Somogyi

The shutter is stuck open

All I see are endless moments

(telescope image up-close)

Of light kisses of fingertips,

And us meandering on

Cobble stones, as

Smoke trickles up faintly

lit in the dark canals

I wait patiently for a kiss like a

goldfish

Waving its golden fins

Filtering the moment, and looking at

Your barely visible features in the water-

reflected moonshine.

I lean in to touch your presence

Shoulder receives my cheeks

(rose tinted by the proximity)

Below the surface I sense uncertainty

turbulence timidity

We come face to face …

The lilac Jupiter floods my vision –

I am only orbiting your aura,

Like your other moons, Europa and Io.

Later that night, after our bodies

Have tangled

I’m stuck in the hole between two mattresses,

Content, but a bit uncomfortable;

Also an appropriate analogy for our romantic situation –

Neither together, nor completely apart

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