When Sylvia Plath said, “Let him go. Have the guts.”
And Emily Dickinson said,
“Heart! We will forget him!
You and I – tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave – I will forget the light!”
Right now Venus’ l light is visible in the evening sky for only a few minutes after sunset. A true strike of a match, temporary as springtime. This week is the last week she’ll be visible in the evening. On the 19th of October she becomes a wet book of matches and disappears.