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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Capricorn of Scorpio: The Spank Bank
5° Scorpio 00′ to 7°Scorpio 29′
Everyone seems to have a few pictures
they’ve carried in their heads since early days:
sensual scenes of varying strictures —
the vaguest sketches, or full three-act plays.
Yearnings put forth peculiar fantasies,
often ill-suited to daily routine.
We can’t always suppress our vanities,
or the obstacles that take place off-screen.
Homework time and the laundry still unwashed,
dinner to make and its dishes to clean.
Adult time seems narrowed, and acid-washed,
as sultry plots become a tired scheme.
Some choose a smutty book, and turn once more,
to those luscious words on page fifty-four.
Image: One member of a couple reads an exciting book in bed, while the other brushes their teeth in the neighboring bathroom.
Important Relationships
- Part of the Egyptian Term of Mars in Scorpio shading into the Term of Jupiter in Scorpio
- Part of Decan I of Scorpio (administrated by Mars): The Jawbone
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.
