Daphnomancy # 20 (June)

Improvisation # 4



Owl on a Low howl in a Cattacombed cave

concocted a crawl’s clear call: Cox-comb

Caw-Cawing through an old wound

committing Calm amid moonlike wands.



An assassin. An abandoner. She permits

Mating only amid the dead. Cured keys

wandering LOOMS amid luck. An influx

of the uncaught, an Alliance of grammar.

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improvisation # 3

I hone our
luminous tools:
our warm rulers
and tin cocoons

Razors wooed
our tar knuckles
of unknowable lumber –
an unbeknown nevering.

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Improvisation # 2

adapt her

Nine barns
and No wards

answer

doom mirror
and vine

non-binding

her if
an iron

Can vow

can ova
and done

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Improvisation # 1


An emblem.
A new man grown.
A bond man –
buttons and all.

Her homeland.
Her alleged.
Her uninjured handling --
Anathema unworn.

worming ruin: iron
for eyes and Cans
for rooms and beds.

June Daphnomancies

Improvisation # 2

Coda dyed in tresses,
Ever nearer the dress,
even nearer the accursed
looming and thickening.

Gliss unmoving and unhurried
and unloosed will
of luminous doing.

Cannot undo the era
Ahead, Nor the unheard.

dyed doves hang her above
abandoned dams where
the good anglers Coax

their Ink into inland
channels, blooming all
along: an analogue

for caged lots.

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Improvisation # 3


undoing a recruit:

a coup.
a hands-off.
tons who can have.
A man who sued.

Caravanned home, He
Denies data, data.

All along mending the Known.

Turning unheard coal into cotton.
An alloy lower and blue.

A new unloosed Era
Of unmixed and uncapped
Mourn. An inland boat
After thaw.

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Improvisation # 4

An ill less new. Can
Her fang do the loosening?
Not bread-and-butter,

hidden and errant,
but an unmoving mirror
less barren than known.

A nun’s hopes and 1
Arrow couldn't hasten lest
a ceremony’s

Hand lent us ashore.