Cheiromancy: poem by Alfred Corn from The Wolf, issue 23

Cheiromancy is a poem by Alfred Corn, printed in issue 23 of The Wolf. The page gives the poem as one continuous text under the title and the poet's name.

Its figures and references include palmists reading a hand, a guide of the dead, a waterdrop on an eave, a mallard crossing the sky at dawn, a schooner, Prometheus carrying a torch, and a gavel coming down. A speaker addresses someone called Joseph. The page states no theme or commentary, so nothing further is said here about what the poem means.

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• Cheiromancy