haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Whole compositions fill [weave in / out of]
stances an immodest distance from one's training,
the detaining features of an intuition. Young
voice treasured made yet golden, silver,
platinum whose density brackets sentences upon
the surface of a halfway understood [closed
caption] artifice. Summery when the keyboard
prompted by a plug in the wall takes power
apart from its possessive adjective, makes
use of it, and leaves harmonic rationales
behind along a brittle hill. She wore a hat,
she spoke in tongues, she defined the atmosphere.
Vision is its own detention period. In lambent
situ, forested or strained. An immediate and
throaty blond after the prayer is past, no tense,
intensity, a sure way through impending refuge.
Offer me a cool place to shield myself from any
pulse apart from tasks braced near the skin
as if it covered all opinion and the fragrance
ever after.

Yard lines, plump defection, lapses in attention,
molehill very large, having a reputation


Sheila E. Murphy

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

I like boring [where the art begins] you
cope. I cope when in the mood [I'm in the mood]
watch out [something about] to be discovered
will be drained [the discoteque] the ample
strings [the wood the plate glass proxy plum]
in northern ways [I take my drama to the bake off]
I size up gem stone tones [in traction toward]
arpeggios released. The more I pickle phrases
the more promptly they come home as language lab
drops curls where dry lines cross the place where
rivers were. I gently touch the top of every trail
until my shoulders glide into the seat where
I have settled like a pioneer who dreams no boundary.
I think a weightless clump of grass will grow if given
time if offered space if left alone, just as
we each take time and traipse across a lifeline
until gravity makes haste and we know things we
should have learned at least once more.

Field greens, pronouncing "no" the first time, life
perceived, unless, apart from, as without a seed


Sheila E. Murphy

3 poems || John M. Bennett

X

the meat glued grime your
outage drone my looser
fork rust les s low a
cross your lap it’s hair~
crown names my what
?eye my ?bolus ?dustwad
splatting≈ on your shoe ?tri
dactil ( phoning in my snoozed
park where the murciélagos
leap an dive los T áboles
se chirrían vivos de pájaros
y en mi bolsillo te encuentro
,Plato Mío :grasa ,y restos del
pescado podrido not eaten
20 weeks ago the floor , , , ,,, ,, ,
with ants in all directions C
,s ,l ,i ,v ,e ,r ,s , ,




X

Leap an clink too swartly
,span the chair i crack yr
stool lumber soaking in
a ditch .══≈ raft swirls≈
beneath the clouds ○○○ ti
me’s slow b link ,,, sinks
in’s humid air o phone
swaying in the ≈lake I
said’s to you ,my aft
er worth my debt your
pulling at the sticky th
reads h )my bone drop
comb it’s( what .land and
s top .yr hand corn пп
~burns~




X

la chingota de mis lapsus
lazos chingatus de mi
murmullo indecible gara
fal e inútil como mi librito
chingabotado ventoseado
por la calle rendida la
calle o mi callo
chingaderescrito pretestexto
de lo útil de mi piel
chingabierta chinguenerrada
en los cordones inmentales
de mi atento intento
,indeleble y futilesco como el
chongorazo que se me olvida
y trato de contar en el
chingorisa de mi tinta
triste tinta blanca e
invisibl e

poem || Jeff Harrison

The Aesthetic Mr. Beane

caves
are
the
go zones,
Sawney
Beane's
the
bread king,
folly
is
his flesh,
pearly &
serener, O,

O pearly &
serener
verse juice-dreary
in
the go zones
with
melted decimal,

the bread
of
the stranger
is
his fame,
warily golden

victims ruin
the
cave, Sawney
Beane muses,
whereas
bread is king
of
the
oven
as Virginia
is
queen
of
the grave,
toes
is
princes
of
shoeses

immortality cavern
preferred
of
vales, palaces,

white climes,
marble, sing
swans, unsullied
with
club-moss must

swans,
the
authors
of Sawney's silvery face,
are
sequencing out peeks
at
names Sawney's
weapons couldn't match

&
Virginia?: Sawney
removes her limbs,
in
daylight no less,
her words
ring this juice
on
the
bread

&
Sawney?: his
sweetest laws
bettered chaos

text || Peter Ganick

from mobile structure

wide presence beguine throughout aprille those mutiny zones deterministic avalanche spoke troth understanding hubris agility inroad verso revile combbine strewn valkyrie headroom borrower singular oeuvre vacuum delay bourse retainers delicacy boatshoe sizing iamb seeker kaiser akimbo slight vessel feint agapanthus elaborate singularity lopsided smiling quota seizure splash quarry obdurate mirage letterset practicum boots sabots enigma defense haymarket ubiquitous naming ballerina sienna zot haptic sephardim levitate emission cartouche various proctor seize reminder silica debut ramification sleuth grammatical coefficients actualize mobius struck nth evening sufferance loot snide navigator elsewhat fumigate lossless antique least borrow singularity behavior sass prediction manifold pranam incomparable thymus rhetoric alciabides entity augury eachness array binding alluvial crystal inversions spiel grossteste innocuous referee snail parrot entity severance told silencing rephrase compare nothingness suave laddered ingredient province snuck thorough silence

poem || John M. Bennett

Sole Dadas, Chunk 13
Transduced from Luis de Góngora's Soledades


     of the herb meandered.
Vying, pest, whose iguana less quarreled
pairs the lugger’s hell the cam
low cake all Sol paired’s lugubrious accident,
crawls the avenues called turd’s canoe
a robust nugget which acquiesces lava
     in circled bacon,
crams the nostrils’ antipodes ah Aurora’s
roses goosed and dazed his fount,
tall sails acrylic cake’s sin’s all blown
thermos squadron’s conned ledger’s past,
hatcheting Atlantis’ dull occasion
of quantum’s humorous count, alleluya.
     The lent squadron lung
     cancelled the syrups,
and dissolving leaves the company,
the pebbled leg with loose cake and day
cedes to’s sacked volcano of errant fog,
to the torn loose corona
that tempo illustrates, and to the air’s vain
artifice dull, exhaled
luminous or pulverized seats,
     purples not comets.
The fugues, pests, the jovial sodomizing,
mittens the veiled aunt’s accusèd tea
of all the bodies’ dust, no goon sea
of nocturnal Phaeton’s corroded ardent,
     and miserably
camps menacing’s sterile day sentinel
     that notched’s idea.
Of Alcides’ low level luggage the plants,
     which stabbed not my legs
but trained the cable verdant to quantum’s
day ,the fugal lust and royal pajamas.
     Tantra garbled’s robust
tantric offerings of the Alamo’s zigzag,
which debriefed Sol on a strainer,
     poured verse’s minus bell,
quantum’s salute what raids the bengal,
     lo of the Ganges’ sizzling dust.
The gate bailer solicits the gust,
     ah the voice of salt;
across the Trion’s massed fig hemisphere,
where the trunk major on the river dances;
     the echo (voice’s yak entire)
ignores hay’s silence to what prompts no response;
the final is’s dull royal cad’s underwear,
lusty’s the reflex, the goo vitreous.
Terminal lays dot the swains all rejoiced,
moist the cans’ ants’ not, caked the movement
verdigris of the forces’ ex prolix.

3 poems || Vernon Frazer

Following Bravely


cuspidor screaming blue vertigo entrails
omnibus clustered apparel’s delight
the tenebrous tactical crescent inbreeding
a maximum animal wandered dream-wet
oscillated venture tensions cracking
vandal easement zoning boards weathered
crossed cadenzas nourished under sweat
bandana cradles drumming ritual haze
to lidded umber shackles uplifted
at the very tension that the name implied
before conceiving bracket checks
or tilted oven magic basted to wilting
padlock dreams rusting doors before
they happen to click turnstile ovens
for sharked bakers pruning avocado
splints before taste rakes butter hangars
to pimento devices undertaking runic
mannerist prefaces muttering epithets
against the sea comb nearly darkened
to the vertical slabs intended to block
luster trading cloven ventures dusting
shock acerbic nostril mantras in the cold
mosaic of flange-bent dreams curried
at ghost writers told to host the subject
before its predicate bounds to another leap
years before the anniversary battles
number the high lanes of tanker sails
pitch against the fence winds clustered
about the door to surfeit the privilege
montage carried in stark juxtaposition
packets film camels elicit form quagmire
polish when bent vesicles sweeten
disdain as cortical equivalent masted
though winds that salt predicate numerals
entrenching their renewed viscosity in amber
conveyance charged lightly to sugar bush
the red antenna cresting visibly on blank
patterns reconciled to holistic drama gears
shift like the wind in its pail or its intent
nominally assured rental vehicles rounding
dead pavements personified as tactile intent
whose corona varies factual replication
tints that matter to lumbering bluster trim
as carnival sails escargot failures to slow
rotisseries harbored in the revenue dockets
where tobacconists revel in foundries mute
to the splay of fortune legs tabled where fear
strikes marimba chimes predating pestilence
and predatory harp shakers lampoon the sudden
miscreant blocking wind gusts bursting tonic
encomiums fed nightly under canker veils
left to soup the entourage its courage




Syntax on the Dark Side



a narrative leading past tense
disasters feeds oblong declarations
whose cast, a profligate fling to

legacies, endangered statements
that rendered fleeting allegro squints

inanimate: a corporeal wing
beating husks against the rainy wind
pounds its hammering clamors
against the swollen hull’s betrayal mix

plasters the clinging particle fury
to participle hangers, white-robed and
slit-eyed, sending grammar ropes

to reparations seekers voiding
the clear swell of a patterned night
dangling tongues to preposition
filters writhing in the baskets below

the sense of currency shedding past
grammars for parables bleeding sense




Riding the Railroaded


leaking hydraulic amnesia
samovar integuments called
astringent to crawling boars

nursing brindled thatches
to condo stalls that backed into
bridle ratchets all teething

at the core when stacked mortar
prevailed on borderline hail trinkets
for the cast anatomy drizzled

down the curried yellow slope
on watch while cattle insignia buried
a steel-bent graveyard rise

roped a retail calling carded
for aging on the new promises
cashed in against the new

casement and passed the
cash resisters on old pulley carts
ahead to the end of the line

2 texts || John Pursch

Bubblin Seashore


Whodelli wazhemon, thet noonenywhar kentrell fromentine partsokettle he halesfrum? Zeroeth ichyban, repentellin das schmooker, mabe eine lurid lair, betatlester heeza talcum, knaughty spenton taekina plowter; aleasedhe paipedup. Truedli as canderlycan, bet whotze gotte spay ferhem shelferof dem doubleboox dathesa kreepin, beehive enamelines? (Arch, etsa lunglung rhode beck und toofar luft fer jest aboot anyofdablested messes te circumaggravate, deskouncin das teatrentical klobe.) Whadhewuz treedte splay wudn’t’a helmed a spooner hefhisize, inoronta noharbor, nohowitzer notwith anyfind stenciledin stendin. Droomed, yaspaculate? Praps beye rectory, thaugh semolin trollsme yedrathabe onda linx splashin gulf withan ironich twestora dawgieleg luft, hundert fiet tethepin, pulin eine grenadier efit’s ebsolomly necessario, prosperosprey Knossos. Ocaurse yunterstump yer lickly tebe sketched und warpled, prestoff da mobyplanck, billyfolden und blanded by einehotter eroneouster, leiden toa bubblin seashore.





Sidewhacky Chopstalk


Abraxian mantle he sproggeth eine leekenzie druden und espurtency, quoteth das fleisch, swemmerin acht trein swolly prolly chestpool, frippen aus de smokintie chambre, eflutin ye arnry eld quartyard wits dan ash. Creippel zie unterbinder’s faloozie, wilt ya, cruisin har te limpabittle? Nastwich bighten, surety est dar ester una rara chocoblastium natrum, fulmination unter whatyagot inhimmel, tunnelin wetword behinterlung mini dawgeary pagina flutelein weanen er estermon von popplescotch, grepplin a tourmescent umidity blaimant, o’reis. Skwaffs daun una logerie loga, brether uv das logoligos, flounder uv else und broomintous sidewhacky chopstalk pentermold, glevined te marcht eddinous, draft-podging tweezers betaken.