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# Venus
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- Published: 2026-04-03T17:30:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T17:40:21.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*by Emily Mongin*

A universe of cells  
Its perpetual expansion beneath the taut membrane of my belly  
Microscopic and profound in its enormity  
The veil between this world and the one we all come from and return to  
Only as thick as a curtain of flesh  
A convex navel  
And veins green and branching as fern fronds  
  
I have become some unfamiliar liminal goddess  
Straddling a branch from the tree of good and evil  
Like the anonymous, richly fleshed women carved from stone  
Beautiful, curved, obscure deities from prehistory  
Who are unearthed from the soil like deeply buried tubers  
Of ancient desire

> Emily R Mongin is a baker, visual artist, casual writer of poetry, and plant fanatic born and raised in Appleton. She is a current student at Fox Valley Technical College, where she studies horticulture.