This is a poem in this series of 144 poems that I’m writing based on the dodeks, or twelfth parts, of the Zodiac signs. As far as I know, everybody else calls them dodekatemoria, but that’s a very complicated word to say, so I just call them dodeks.
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Pisces of Aries: The Skyscraper Hospice
27° Aries 30′ to 29° Aries 59′
The hospital room has amazing views:
from west to north you can see for miles,
but both family and patient wait for news…
or the gaunt scythe-man… with timid smiles.
Railroad model magnolias, pink in bloom,
adorn every city street you can see,
but to the south is the hospital gloom.
Eastward is sunrise, where spirits will flee
that forget how to hold to flesh today,
where tree-line conceals the horizon’s knife,
and phlogiston leaps skyward from Earth’s clay,
Fire subliming the Waters of Life.
For now, lungs deflate, and then fill again —
and hearts beat on, in the children of Men.
Image: A family gathers in a high room with a grand view of the city, while an elder sleeps in a bed.
Important Relationships
- Part of the:
- Decan III of Aries (administrated by Venus): The Burning Rose
Colophon
This is a part of a series of poems based on the dodekatemoria, or twelfth parts, of the Zodiac signs. The dodekatemoria are sub-segments of the Zodiac, each representing two degrees thirty minutes (2° 30′) of arc; there are 144 dodeks (as I call them) in the full Zodiac, or twelve in each sign. Each dodek is supposed to be a recapitulation or miniature repetition or summary of its parent zodiac sign, as though it were filtered through the lens of the main sign.
The Sun crosses this distance of 2° 30′ in about two and a half days, making these dodeks cognate with the Moon, which crosses one sign of the Zodiac, or thirty degrees (30°) in about two and a half days. The Sun’s passage through a dodek thus mirrors the Moon’s passage through a sign, and squeezes a “mini-year” of passage through twelve signs into a single month.
Each series of dodeks begins at 0° 00′ of its parent sign with the same sign, and there are four dodeks in each sequence of 10° degrees. Each poem in this series will give a (my) name of the dodek, its relevant degrees, a sonnet describing it, a 1-2 sentence description of the dodek, and some other information.
