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Aubade with Burning City.

"dark tool"

   whelmed wasp nest
honey cerulean hospice
in the cool long living room
under a mingled auspice

   plaid giraffe
on wet wings of a tariff,
seraphim can't dance so slow;
rogaine on the race sheriff

   fragile realm
courage for a whelmed wasp nest

Joe Coleman pic.

"In a cold, lone, mossy bastille
Cell. It's a bare, venal room--"

--Satire: Veritas

Lion annual 1955.