Seven Eventides with Polina von Pixiedust

Seven Eventides with Polina von Pixiedust

On Mondays,
prefers to keep her spirit gods hidden from
the moon in her Hermès Birkin Leather Bag,
atop velveteen lipstick and myriad bobby pins

On Tuesdays,
favors the Morbid Anatomy Museum, in
Brooklyn, beelining to the Collector’s Cabinet,
her temple, for thoughts lurid and bloody

On Wednesdays,
every other, it’s Lips NYC for bitchy
bingo, drag queens, and whispered sins
clutching absinthe and her boozy fairies

On Thursdays,
books of comic and dark lit, rereading her
favorite pages three times for luck, watching
over her are Shelley, and Gaiman, and the Marquis

On Fridays,
Bowie disco or Bauhaus disco
or Prince disco or Mermaid disco
or Hitchcock disco or Poe disco

On Saturdays,
the ritualistic dying of the hair, mending
of the body, black stockings, new
eyeliner, and everything else confidential

On Sundays,
high tea and pixie sandwiches,
quick chat with the cat, and then
a long bath to a small serenity