Prodictions

Jeffrey Herrick
ISSUE 2007-1
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Prodictions In the gainsaying and saying gained In contradictions rive life And repine in the noose of nous As the pent tentorium censors A sensorium set for stets, Subjunctive jumps to bounded Straits and jacketed blanks, In inks with actinism, emetics With emication, nitent patterns, Pattens for the splatter of patter, Spores for the poor spoors Makers of scores ogham To engrams, tale to phones As libretti for liberated prodictions That assay the etyma of marzipan, In March as almond buds breach In Delphi as the pips and piths Pythia sibyls to myths, Maths to maps of canniness To savor, revel, and ravel Thrones and drones in aum, Trireme memes to mean α to β to ω, Circular as arguments and blood, A fool-a-hoop paradise of paradoxes, Peloria minus pelorus or periapt; Nevertheless of nothing dings An epistrophe of stichs to sing To dingbats and sic on verbatim Vocables devoid of valences That fulgurate the vulgate and zap Lipped zips to sipped Ichors sans icky Ich bin beginnings Ending in mews scoop Reenactments of auld lang Lines and signs of declined Shine in twine surmises In theses of erudite inditements Of esoteric exoterics to tears, Sthenic exercises in ontic Treks where nary diction Carries its own weight, Waits, instead, for the stead Of decanted incantations to breathe Whines that appal to appeal, To taste what were waste To land reclaimed in declaimed Muses to amazement, trued News in accountable mouths.