Queen Spawn
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Luminous pink riddles,
labile dawn's oblation
evanesce to nimbus
nursury silver-grey.

Aurora window tunnels'
tetanic halo storm
droning hymeneal
phlegm antennea fractal swarm.

But a sable and rust ribbed
zero-blossom buzz embed
wax aufgehoeben
my wilt royal wheeze-
sterile segmented waif
whose koan anther quest
consummated in magenta
stamina overcast.

Probuscis macabe
calyx casket
floral folly
exoshroud graft
stigma stung!

or

Ecstatic lapse
kinesis seducer,
cilia suspended above
pollen nadir
solute lullabye.

To dance the opaque petalled
urge
of an unmoved dynastic vector;
sister hive compleated
labors
into nuomenal nectar cyst.

Fragrantly violating
atrophy's tournament.


David Mautner
Late summer, 1990






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