Pluto captured Proserpine,
Demeter’s black-eyed daughter.
By maneuvres serpentine
and black magic he caught her.
Demeter sued in Olympian court,
custody requested.
Pluto would not his wife deport,
would hold her sequestered.
Court ruled that she should spend
summers with her Mother Earth,
winters husband’s wishes tend
when earth suffered warm’s dearth.
Now pluto(nium) holds Earth in thrall,
threatening to burn us all
with hell-fire so extreme,
that Pluto seems to reugn supreme.
Proserpine, the halfway creature,
daughter of Earth but Hell’s dear wife,
wavers, flounders in half-states,
like quantum cat, ‘twixt death and life.
When we look, we’ll know Fate’s choice.
“Look in summer”, whispers Voice.