Eros

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Amor beklagt sich bei Venus / Cupid Complaining to Venus. Ca. 1525. National Gallery, London.

Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesn’t go away. —Philip K. Dick

The name of Eros—god of vexing love—does not appear in Homer’s Odyssey.

Yet he’s the oldest deity, Parmenides says, the child of black-feathered night.

He’s fooled in that parent’s dark with y’all and me—

As offspring of reality, it’s time we got it right!