Daphnomancy # 9

Improvisation #1
3.28.06

dart error and Call:
a hand can have and halve

cotton hands brought
glamour

of the award

did it do dust?

all call but
DOLL couldn't double ...
and call someone

hot bitterroot dull

Improvisation # 2
3.28.06

couldn't pallor and rich gingham
and towed yards: Motes of Men
amid running cattle

(only charlatans and
Rome-arrows and an aunt)
hush and saw, Doll collage.

Cobbled tones, kites and hoods
wheel will all but clearly call (cull)
all cotton beds amok

dada who can (whom)
Aunt Anna and 1/2 and
heathens beheld the bell

Colts hang, eye dampened
celled with cots called Laurel
a hot-button

comatose, you called, all crawling
and drawl, but all who crawled
dunes named them Amanda and Anna

the know-how clutched called
Autumn calls: nutmeg, cotton
cotton cotton button

clutched caught caught clutched hushed
but called:
lucky

Daphnomancy # 8

IMPROVISATION 3.12.06
#1

in her rewrite,
wooden minds
caught and Wooed

the hot stone against the in --
doe's skin -- crewel of courting

they allude
and elude fools possessed
and unhooked

the advent
a crude rune
like a luminous polluter

unloaded data
a polar moon
a hand pandered

error unleavened:
Aaron's note.

he caroled off, out
of habit

a parallel wanting
mirrors came for us:
flux hot bloom

the healers clicked
in Dens of favors.

An alleged Giver
of toxic boxes, Eleanor

culled dull knockings
come at night
from the Delta

New wands and rich
rooms believed in
the other

caused to happen: hap

homeless in local winters
delaying THE decay

if dust and
rumors
if kindred Blue Routes

who sows and sells
and draws
where houses call

bats can detect ends
by hearing
hands

this haunted angle
if hoof call offers

didn't
build our doll,

didn't heal
our hands

Daphnomancy # 7

3.14.05

Diana, the ironer, added hems of ruin
twinkling woods arrowed
Diana Didn't tack luminous towers

lined anew, our lot moored amid hidden Dunes
in pAngs, bloom lust and bile cost light.
wives wrote unhinging the city's honeycomb

Danger wrought and doted. Waves attacked an Island
and culled the ruling error: her runners above
and amid loving.

, blessed air couldn't move -- moonlike, FERAL -- unless
the crowns and lindens came whole. the Cane Came holed
as cathedrals collected worms, an unmixing

cult of 4 muttons, heathens cut lost buttons. a holy
canoe Called Cane, often anger runs knives and dens unless
barren and Mad as axes

female enamel's worst bloom: lawS cost keys
and end in cotton, our numerous nets and rents.
A name Dies and the iron clan of lanterns less.

Daphnomancy # 6

a bond, the root caught
tufts: mother, son
cant move

consume our ovum
allusive cases
at last hatched

a thin man who
wrote the loan plume
whose paneled Hilt

palm pillow
prickling arrows

an unopened loop
what lucky luck
hot hover much

cotton crack or deluxe
pollutants

the novel ruled:
then claws

Daphnomancy # 5

unleavened
and unwarranted
learned

glass wrought
leaden
heart

timbering

wands woven
and towed

mowed, moved
from me

higher morning
cold-blooded
in the morning

9 knives honed
to half-thief
deals

throbs cut cotton
scars clotted
and robbed

9 wives, 9 goats
robed in cotton

belt from the loom
a bolt of vellum

fog and chalk
shalt cost a head

half of
loaf and foal

culled from
sandy graves. the hem
of Yet carved
shucked

a whole head
choked
and handled

we unhusked
half our house
the Bush nettles
and brush

could a host and arrow
have an arrow
whose formulas
of manna

close lemon and blue
amid boots and
meridians South


fraught fiEnds
projects
mutton of cloth, of cotton

all but Darwin

will vote
unload your ribbon
happiness ammended

Daphnomancy # 4

Improvisation # 4
3.14.06

her award honing
Madame
made her
Hanging me

thickening whom
thickening wombs
who I admire, maim

I'm hAy
married

the retina has
1/2 today
the THiEf of eyes
and hair

1/2 married

1/2 hurried

had shed hot
hooks whose
hands shook,

whose dull light
I let out

is this dark wooden
a commitment ?
Burn it.

and asters
this is his
his task

hushed clutter
THING
what Hangs on
nudges

Caw Caw notes
the crows left us:
Little dual opponents

room demurred
Makers milked

anesthesia
a hate hidden
and eaten

warm meaning
mild but
warm and unmoving

Daphnomancy # 1

Improvisation 1
3.11.06

Hook
I am
Roarer

cut off, when 1 button
he left along -- adding
threads, adding dice
hard in their stares

grooming, pouting
hems and the bobbin

the robin, robing him

Bats have eyes, their ears

troves of trophies
one lead
she had path winded
hovered in wind

through she crystaled

root hair, the Barber's
coat related to
Cotton

blue bones accumulated
crewel of blue

and maroon, the island
Broken
ahead light halves

Daphnomancy # 3

Improvisation # 3
3.10.06

Rail Road
mines and mineral
and inroads

crickets
quick to sing, tricksters
demurred

manned war
Whole metals mined
from tricks

rule, rule ahead --
who mans the war
who in a hat -- how hot
they bow

hate will doom: wild
and hot -- metal tricks

but me.

Build.

political fall out
all hats

dual doom:
hugs, unaccustomed to
rural poor
rural health unaccustomed to
hugs

and hounds blue
and uhurried

cathead ... the FAlse
cathedrals

1/2 a land
Hollow

whatever Anna
needs -- heaven

Men in hats at night
eNtering a vault, joint
games

hold us
opposing the 8
whose hold couldn't
utter

arrive above
and move
and moan
and hover

unhooded goods
unhappy gods

look hoof of
almost half
Whooping

for Tall shall
see, have

and end
and then all
hands admire
minerals of
pleasure

would pollute

Daphnomancy # 2

Improvisation # 2

3.9.06



mohel



hang boy

act calm

as if

no knife

is hot

or holy

~*~is~*~

Daphnomancy is an ancient method of divination using a branch from a Laurel tree.

A Laurel branch is thrown into a fire and a question is asked.

If the branch crackels in burning it is a positive sign.

If the branch burns without doing so it is a negative sign.

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An ancient form of divination by a process of burning laurel. During the burning of a branch in a fire if there is crackling, this is a sign of good luck. But if the crackling is absent, then the prognostication is false.

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Laurel has been known since ancient times. In Greece and Rome it was a symbol of peace and victory in military and sporting activities. That is why Laurel is also called Lauro Nobili. In Ancient Greece, Laurel was consecrated to Apollo, God of Music and Poetry, as well as the Oracle of Delfi and is the reason for which the first of the six temples were decorated with Laurel frescos. It is sald that the Priestess of the Oracle fell into a trance after inhaling the smoke of the burning Laurel leaves. A large amount of the plant can cause hypnotic trances. Laurel was a sacred plant of Ascepio, sun of Apollo, God of Medicine. For centuries, the plant has been used against many diseases, especially the plague. Even today Laurel is hung in houses to refresh the air, and also used to protect flour and dried figs against harmful insects.

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(and here)

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Daph·nis (dfns)

n. Greek Mythology

A Sicilian shepherd and son of Hermes who was famed as a musician and reputed to be the inventor of pastoral poetry.

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Performances

.:. .:. the creative music
workshop presents .:. .:.

- sound and word -

First set:

DAPHNOMANCY (Kyle + Austin, Texas)
Michelle Detorie (text, projections)
Kurt Newman (guitar, voice recognition software)

Second set:
DUO
Joshua Beckman (NYC/Seattle - books, pen, voice)
Chris Cogburn (Austin - percussion)

The sounds, the words, improvised.
Special guests tba.

Saturday, March 11th
9pm
$0-$8
1311-D East 6th Street
(entrance is on Navasota, between E. 5th and E. 6th)
(roughly 1/2 mile east of I-35 after Waller and Attayac!)
(B.Y.O.B)