Evilly Dine Dragons

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Spools emit timed loop.

Metaverses rev−

A temenos

Till unmet systems we defile:

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Vaginae, coronae,

Code-born aminos in universes’ rev−

A tempo old.

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…Lost in robe regal

…It raced, untended

…New as birth, gill, animal foot

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…Oh photo of laminal light!…

…Ribs a wended net

…Nude cartilage

…Reborn, it’s old.

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Loop metaverses rev in unison

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…I, Man, robed ocean, or

…Ocean, I gave life.

…Dews met system;

…Null, it’s one.

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Metaverses rev

–a tempo old–

Emit time’s loops

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Moth ash

Deer field–

Idle, I freed too sere moths

Ah! To meld, arcing

In ebony align.

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I wish to melt

‘Til – little moths –

I wing, I lay.

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No–

Benign, I cradle moth ash to

Mere soot.

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Deer field, idle I

Freed.

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Notes and comments

Lying in bed last night I noticed a few more imperfections and possibilities, so here is a revised and ever so slightly expanded version.

1) The opening line ‘too sere moths’ seemed too abrupt, and I realised that ‘Deer field’ was a good context setter and ‘deer field, idle I freed’ is palindromic so could be tacked onto the beginning/end easily. It also works nicely in terms of palindrome poetics in that the end takes us back to the start, but something has changed – the poet himself is now freed, perhaps.

2) I changed ‘ebony / a sign … I say’ to ‘ebony align… I lay’. The use of ‘align’ adds to the sense of the poet melding – aligning himself – with the moths. ‘Lay’ also adds another flying (or landing) verb.

3) Having lost the ‘I say’, the ‘No’ is less dramatic, slightly more detached and introspective, more in keeping with the tone.

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