Name: Transit of Venus
Duration: P00H04M51S
Description: The title is borrowed from the novel by Shirley Hazzard of the same name; I grafted the central love story in it onto one of my central love stories.

Transit of Venus

from Dead Reckoning by Kate Fenner

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The title is borrowed from the novel by Shirley Hazzard of the same name; I grafted the central love story in it onto one of my central love stories.

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Transit of Venus

The last time we met I know my face seemed unfamiliar—
You hadn’t seen the way your absence broke me.
Nor the way I’d mended, scarred and silvered,
One side pulled blue, stoop of apology.
Grief is an artist with its painter’s eye for detail
And its refusal of outside obligations—
Oh, the details I held onto.

The violinist on the corner by the window
In cowboy boots plays Mozart through an amp.
Movie themes, Claire de Lune and Some Romantic Evening
Brief reprieve from that lion grief
The only way to hurt you would have been to tell you
That I knew you were not a noble man,
But I loved you anyway.
What good is guilt with no mercy?

I have dreamt so strongly of you,
Walked so, talked so,
Loved so your shadow—
Nothing remains of you.

“If he were to die the world would be a room where no one sees her”,
Is a line I read long after you were dead.
Re-enter the story, fall in love with what’s to be here—
How can it be that there is still suspense?
Can I help you now? No.

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from Dead Reckoning, released January 15, 2023
Connor Schultze, bass; Stéphane San Juan, drums; Mark Spencer, guitar, mellotron; Agustin Uriburu, acoustic guitar, Scotty Hard, arrangement

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