Venus

she wears
a purple silk
shirt and
white jeans

Eros (Sorrow)

sore
rose
ore
roe
so
or
o

Eros (Jackhammer)

Love started one morning
and wouldn’t stop

Robert Fernandez is the author of Scarecrow (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), as well as Pink Reef (2013) and We Are Pharaoh (2011), both published by Canarium Books. He cotranslated Azure: Poems and Selections from the “Livre” by Stéphane Mallarmé (Wesleyan University Press, 2015). www.robert-fernandez.com