Nun of Fall Equinox

she swept the abbey
of ancestral curse
evil befalling catholic tragedy

malicious trappist
fathers their scattered bones
in labyrinthe body-snatching mist

cornbroom straw sanitizing
invasion of religious space
commercially-motivated sexual fling

recessive existence her nun metaphor
gothic dark cubicle losing the cornstraw
to playful authenticity brick wall masturbating whore

lesbian goblin market heroine
clay doll of what nun of fall equinox
asked to f*** the fur-wearing atheist twin

molested child orphan of the rhine
wicked older priest impotent dark invader
the cask of amontillado edgar allan poe revenge fork tine

freud’s unheimlich repressed content
passage into sexual awareness linking back to childhood
when she started her gothic-bleed period white rag collar repent

morbid debauchery of catholic maliciousness
cross stained with blood in the cemetery crypt
catacombs smell of rank politics blighted with wickedness

nun of fall equinox drapes the prophetic trunks
she borrows six inches of broomhandle
not touched by the hand of monks

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist