Lunar Baedeker

Highlight Actions Enable or disable annotations A silver Lucifer Lunar Baedeker...Lucifer A Baedeker is a series name of popular guidebooks. Another modern poem with “Baedeker” in the title is T. S. Eliot’s “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar” (1919). Lucifer is the former angel name for Satan, which has been used to name the morning star, that is the planet Venus serves cocaine in cornucopia To some somnambulists of adolescent thighs draped in satirical draperies Peris Peris “In Persian myth, an elf or fairy, male or female, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from Paradise till their penance is accomplished” (Century Dictionary) in livery in livery Dressed for their job prepare Lethe Lethe River of forgetfulness in Hades for posthumous parvenues parvenues Those who have recently come into wealth Delirious Avenues lit with the chandelier souls of infusoria infusoria Class of protozoa; “so called because found in infusions of decaying animal or vegetable matter” (OED) from Pharoah’s tombstones lead to mercurial doomsdays doomsdays The end of the world or Judgment Day, usually in the singular Odious oasis in furrowed phosphorous phosphorous “Phosphorous” (with a capital “P”) is Venus, the morning star, archaically referred to as Lucifer, mentioned in the first line of this poem. the eye-white sky-light white-light district white-light district Possible alternative to red-light district. The term appears in Theodore Dreiser's book A Hoosier Holiday(1916). of lunar lusts Stellectric Stellectric A word formed from “stellar” (star) and “electric” signs “Wing shows on Starway” “Zodiac carrousel” Cyclones of ecstatic dust and ashes whirl crusaders from hallucinatory citadels of shattered glass into evacuate craters A flock of dreams browse on Necropolis Necropolis Literally: a city of corpses From the shores of oval oceans in the oxidized Orient Onyx-eyed Odalisques Odalisques “Female slaves or concubines in an Eastern harem” (OED) and ornithologists observe the flight of Eros Eros God of Love in Greek mythology; also, the name of an asteroid, discovered in 1898 obsolete And “Immortality” mildews ... in the museums of the moon “Nocturnal cyclops” “Crystal concubine” Pocked with personification the fossil virgin of the skies waxes and wanes