Fiery Valentine

After two cups of coffee

I hear snow falling somewhere

Rain turning to snow
 
Snow that is loud and clattering
So you go inside a little afraid
And chastened turning to ice
 
Thinking of Venus borne
Under the heavy body of earth
Into the cold darkness of space
 
Carrying a child not hers
A man and half a man
The curse of birth
 
Which comes upon her
In a whirl of stars fallen
In the fiery resting snow