First Date

Athena w/o the helmet and staff

bearing a rucksack of rainbows

Venus w/o the clamshell

clothed in an effusion of caresses

Hestia w/o the hearth

improvising cherub cuisine

Eurydice w/o the dark backstory

silently entering the sunlight

Cleopatra w/o the asp all silken

synapses and sensuous sentience

Love is not a monotype

incentives to love are as incalculable

as droplets in the house of rain