augury sequence
tautologic birds as signs—
twitching along worn, migratory
paths, as lightest bones and flights
toward east where lines drawn
are not kept
as hours blend within segued limits,
dreaming beings must wake,
eventually trothed with blood
and semen to nourish the earth,
assumed for centuries
an all-absorbing
algorithm
entrusted to smoke patterns, decisions
in a fractal universe means the next move
may erupt from below; mouths, eyes,
pelvis echo though birthrights increase
ever skyward
as do abilities to bounce back
from gutting, as if the center
for thriving in these lower planes
can be ripped out
as if futile ghosts could ever
choke a fire fed by
striving
as below, no longer above; aspired effort
to see—tea leaves settle
in a glass, or a hand passing over cards
can tell–doubtsafe and sacral,
makes love in the farmer’s field, this time
for life itself