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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Libra of Taurus: The Fancy Market
12° Libra 30′ to 14° Libra 59′
Every kind of food they have here, is nice.
They curate all the goods that they purvey,
and the freezers are stocked with gourmet ice,
and fish flown in fresh — last night’s catch, today.
A Neapolitan pizza-maker
slings his dough across from a sushi chef,
and a Parisian is the head baker.
Everything you get — avocado to teff —
is the best quality that you could find.
But you should expect a leg and an arm
won’t cover your bill — the receipt you signed
costs your third-born, too — they won’t come to harm,
except they’ll labor in the loading dock
unless you come to terms with sticker shock.
Image: A woman in a grocery store is shocked by how high food prices have become.
Important Relationships
- Part of Ptolemy’s Term of Mercury
- Part of Decan II of Taurus (administrated by Moon): The Lingam-Yoni
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.
