Muses

"[S]he is happy whom the muses love"(Hesiod, Theogony).

I channel them daily. Sometimes I think they channel me. One at a time, and it's clear and concise. Sometimes all nine of them at once, in a chatter like birds or a trance like river babble. I always welcome them and live my life in devotion to giving them voices in poetry and form in art.

Erato

She says I would have to practice restraint with you

but not here

Not on canvas

Where everything is pouring out of me in a summer rain of honey and fire

Because my Gods said to stay dark and so I know that I'm yours

If ever you want