Monthly Visitors — Extended Version

Euclidian ellipses

Conjure circumnavigational collusions — coincidences,

Lending lustrous

Interactive interventions, invocations intersecting

Peculiar perigees, promising

Surrendering spheres'

Eccentricities

.

Enhanced evocations enter,

Culling, calling, conspiring

Life's longevity; love's liaisons

Interweaving invitingly:

Pineal pulsations

Summon

Extraocular, extrasensory experiences

.

Estrus erupts expediently, explosively;

Cyclicly controlled coital capitulation, chaining charmed celestial

Lunacy, leading libido lovingly — lustfully —

Into intercourse — invasive interludes

Portending, perhaps, procreation;

Shared solar sexuality suddenly spawning

Entanglement's enamored embraces, expressing embryonic expectations

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Is it merely a coincidence that the menstrual cycle follows lunar months? This relationship was acknowledged by ancients who named the cyclic hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian cycle after the moon: "MENSES." We have evolved in a double-planetary system of Earth+Moon. Indeed, life on Earth would not have come to be — as is — without the influence of our Moon keeping our planet's 23.4º-tilt stable. If men are said to be from Mars and women from Venus, the real truth is that Man+Woman is from the planet Earth.

Many species rely on the Moon for their reproduction-related migrations, sometimes calling into use the vestige of a third eye, called the Pineal gland in humans. Is it a coincidence that this gland secretes melatonin, responsible for our sleep-wake cycle?

As such, it all falls together into the romance of mating on our exact planet — the way both it and we evolved. I often wonder, is it any coincidence that our Moon is so perfectly sized and positioned, and the Earth-Moon unit so perfectly distant from our Sun, that eclipses happen in a perfect alignment of a moon eclipsing a star? (It's like it was done on purpose!)

I originally submitted the last stanza as a standalone poem, but I felt this acrostic demanded more reflection in visiting such an important subject. Hence, this "Expanded" version. Yet, I kept the original one-stanza piece because, after all, poetry is an economy of words, is it not? I hope you enjoy both versions. Thanks for reading.