- The Giant Oaks of Kew Gardens, Queens: if leafy, indicates sacrifice; if bare-limbed, indicates a refusal to look inward. To see through to. To throw shade.
- The Mantis Religioso (The Preying Mantis): unusual; unnatural as a wire hanger, fast as a blade snapping back into a bone handle. Warms himself in the globe lamp hanging from the ceiling of the foyer in the Tudor apartments. Indicates the ease of vanquishment.
- The Medusa: lying on the field of a cracked breastbone, gazing up at the insect; capable of suffocating Sicilian men once they have seen her beauty. Dangerous though beheaded. Indicates something will reach through half a century to you, but not moonlight nor light from the street lamp.
- The Trinicria of Dancers’ Legs: bent at the knee, toes pointing east, indicating sunrise in hours, begs to be plated in gold. Indicates the three corners of Sicily, indicates an insert to fit a 45 single onto a hifi so the song won’t drag & warp, indicates caution: go around the other corner, go the other way, risk being cornered.
- The Sheaves of Wheat: gold from the loamy fields by the mouth of hell and Etna; sprouting from the V of the dancers’ legs, where the blood should flow, but stopped. Indicates infertility, indicates the time she bound her breasts to look like the man that night she danced and danced.
- The Queen of Mouths: thirteen mouths slit & steaming over her body, lavender essence wafting up to the mantis, and then gone, eyebrows like a crow that can find any heart in a field, kittenish hair shorn all spicy like desiccated basil, V at the nape indicating kiss me, kiss me there.
- The Queen of Palms: entwined with Queen of Mouths, legs bent, cradling in blood and cum. Indicates friendship, indicates I hear you, I hear you over the B-side of a Mary Wells single: Boy, What Have You Done? Indicates a gentle death at last. Indicates a soft palm over a body of mouths, covering each mouth: I’m here, I heard you and I’m here.