poems || Vernon Frazer

Sedimental Journey



Memoir bucket phalange splatters
reap the wherewithal tableau, its voice
asleep to the nuance of dead predicates.
Adagio cufflinks maritime splendor
at sequels. Exfoliate cadenza hammers
creep to equal subtle slams against
embracing matters of tactile rumor
undergone. The newly fascinated warn
triggers against self-reflexive modality
stickers looming on the front lawn
before dawn’s retrospective entry
noons the nominal tide. Leaf-time hides
brown against the terrace mottos left
behind. Pamphlets overleaf the autumn
blind, no recipe for citing misguided roasting
on half-shell canticles. Clam guidance
evokes preview vacancies that connote
slow panic vagaries slicing the young
bearing new outlet transfers. Their
dawn melange scatters ocelot raisins
among the baking ruins. A bitter sluice
of pizza to swallow dices the factual
eminence. Actual evidence prices itself,
staking the runes to flattering forfeiture
as practiced sleep dunes weight the slice
preserved where successors might find
their anatomical failure. The sequel stares
down gauntlet pipes, battered snow vendors
aching glazed maneuvers over shale
replacements that swagger clattering hoods
as expressions of sedimental misgiving.

Ranching Out



Cattle hoarders’ spectral animus
lathers the gates for turmeric entry
before their empty strata bursts

preclude their future. Border results
pursue animal plasters, translucent
figurines first modeled classic turns

as lectures. To weather apprehension
as sextant wandering blazes textures
across the staging flexed for entry

battles. Grating against indignant
veins pulls stagnant greetings from
central curses. Insults pursue castors

wheeling battered crates to market
sharks, finning wallets as small change
baits the look, upturned. The shatter

gaits to crawl, empty turn on the picket.
Dense chords flayed balustrade sounds.
Arterial flamingos linger in past tense

presented on platters, dynamo static
to the stars. Equestrian tidings linger
to all but the many who dissuade

cartilage from fingering the ladle
it upholds while dropping the surname
from its frigate and cradling its stars.


Ascent to a Lowered Plateau



Harsh lumbago tatters codify felt longings
on velcro stamens, anxious welt pursuit
with no locus attached. Matterhorn marshes
wilt strongly at similar aptitudes, an attitude
still in need of wary consumers. Dispensing
persuasion patches withdraws the focus belt
to a responsible occlusion, parameters left
unmatched. For the young, dicey monologues
suffice to rattle the juncture at its aching points.
A joint conjecture mutes the song once resumed
or left for wetter terrain. Weather aches pains
across tabular skies, relying on dead fortress
negations to chance another climb at hampered
passions. Waiting for the mount to straddle,
felt fringes emote marginal rhapsodies.
End-quote thrillers command the reader’s
detention. Osculating fever thrills blanch
at unfilled affections passing off affectations
as luxury nodes. Projects erode the willing
before pastures connote deeper feeding.
Move the trough to a pale liking. Off-course
trajectories a missing target. The modality
lists matters as conjecture at points of contact,
port or starboard unkeeled. Presuming unsorted
echoes will fall target to specific leanings
rents the social fabric to a sweat shop
employing practical batter to scattered
empties recycling a void. Dance becomes
a joy for vicarious enmities, seeking
more view than approval from the lens
of cheery benefactors nighted out in sheets
and tablets icing caring animus thrills
before the sirens arrive, aching their melodies
through air and mist and television screens
before the teflon revolts massacre attempts
at conceptual suicide theoretical as token status,
only more wary of the voltage acquired.
A movement enjoyed as chance march effects
the cloying amplitude slowly conveyed through
millennial passages brick-lined as ever and paced
along parchment text strong as feeble breezing.
Diameters push their limits to circumference.

AT ( 07-12 ) || Jim Leftwich

7.

as a destination placed within a sentence, the sizzle of that amassed: more or less than 30 cents.
by the pound at high speeds; from here in 20 steps up to 350 degrees centigrade.

8.

up close by time and wages: in three hours you could age up to 72 years.

9.

to celebrate the cerebral victory as a story.

10.

how do they do that? with apostrophes and erratic spacing: denounced at once and out the back door.

11.

withered by their agreement, according to our request.

12.

depends on what? you can thank the judge for that.

Remove A Concept [28-32] || Peter Ganick

*28

hurry, it wont last, versus
a climate, cute for a while, then
armeggedon wild is in conversate, a
melody from orchard,
so pasteurize infancy
holds itself study, continuate,
mood, mild in earth, short data, when
so end forgot shutoff, soft
sound a rack upon decoy, not
to spent before context, each world
instead of motives, yr mist upon
agrees to go southern to th
mantra that hold peace's suds,

in order to make scent real
one might associate,
to try communicate is why,
forage guitar sweet nature,
hoot passing fair,
night a dear nickel calls
brawn to bring is relate to,
nervous astride th south in a place
well begun, a heart
& whose prepare for each a
night in exact,
long distant to
emulsify that night, how in
one soiled manicure, death asks
no sky, moon pattern not
inform, silent a disperse a mind, a
carnival of trees as
better subordinate so very easy,
tough to league w/in
certain organism's tricks, a heard marvel
think to reposition, a
harp cast in how itd lurk for
hours to separate th husks,
thick bless in here, neat fish
for clip tread, piano, all
if of time's agreement
when not shop in stop than
catalogues, th concur
telephone strays an axle from parish,

nearly friday thick eat &
move pencil, whom astray those
sleep in stereo, that begin hurries
as you are ...


*29

forehead in eighteen, th cliff
asserts is chalance to reposition on
a marvel screen to stink, a
holiday that of hidden shld,
that is label th confidence til next
one positions,
hadnt thought
clean up to pore over minis, a
regency you exploit first names, whose
running from evokes
stack of porridge than
binaries,
a gruesome accretion
of salubrious nomenclatures ...


*30

some hanger-on to that truth,
a heavy one walker triplicate caddy,

never insult decrepancies, a
car on roast (that) cd change
in tension terra firma, yr
culinary apetite each
defrost to writhe curious
in acre of last incident (that)
mating game, a restaurant
soft brogue (then) look unsure, whose
ignorance is well-read from
copious deceits & deprecations,
to remind is one shift (this)
needs to emote further
from alive to align, something one dew
dropped from sky, his
cosmic apperception, adjectival in sulk
that no one until first
now, threat of arrival into
cypress on hold, a magician each
worm (a heat) for
cap-size unsuspend from
how to intravenous digs,

check upon nodules are their,
self-reflexive th comparison, smile
same generous filter
thought one world you
scope out of campers, soft
enlighten to vital agency, whom th
approximate same shock
as tourney of foods,
a grey sudden in chance how,

terms th craze of whom indexed & before, a mysticism awares th influent, since
barter, high chip any
trot chief, magic sutra, deep
as a draw in choice force precious,
looks more alike now, a
spool from certain delete any humid ...


*31

whose is why is that?,
pervade & realize, (a surpass)
price & lean-tos on high rock, another to
change passing from rhythm now
(that) convincing perhaps lateral to
ennobling epicure, like some water, some something to accrue depth
upon th hardly expose in feel
comfort perhaps bestial, tall spot in
eager flyaway, so new to
report in half hour (th twenties), a
summary often only
a pardon where
escape working for haha,

deemed formless,
how, that impass result
make bigger
before countdown, a
long motion of pasture on anticipate,
wd like frosty, ashes in
all youse having,
never th chief after longhouse, th
ornament,
like you grope, like to like tho,

martian stop, once a
world unread, car in lot,
tell you this all set, they
wander to move, whose
delay in light approximate to memory,
see into face, limit
just no repeat, granite each spur
on sky reclaim attention, of
this
that reflect
motion in space,
stricken th worm of lyric, wisdom
late cant call emergency,
former trick on teevee, books
scoundrels for more ...


*32

remember in burden,
light & high, on toast to a
mask returned this warning, whose
favor yr feature no complaint,

grass labelled no walk, stride
& function gets diction assured,
from voice to give, a
hurried inset upon read this,

garrulous to extant natures, plural cosmic
where it is in self,
a hardly sampled coffee
& serenity a dash intense ...

poems || John M. Bennett

caws


mount mute

locker lint

so much trust





fewl


said cob
said ) ) ) ) )

its snake





sold

do draw
>> <<
open the thorn
dew






vista gancha

la mo chila de gr
asa el mo tín
del tún el a
gua ar en
osa del o
jo encar
gado de
pie dra





sudor

río
bisturí
tianguis
ambular no
torio y lumin
oso y abierto a lo
mismo que no has aguado nunca






La Caminata

gota inodora y la calle in
signe donde la nada leo en
el rincón alto donde las plumas
caen un sabor de hule un
tremar la goma ineludible de
mis comestibles la caca la
cama el caño voceante
debajo de mis pies está en
todo eso que mi colmillo
piensa .y como el comentario
de todo lo que sale de
la boca nublada .una
corona es ,un reloj y un
zapato desgastado




fowl


dust flood
- - - - - -
the lung cow

map speech




dame


porch an
drip drip

sit an shine
glue stroll




stung


crate ,gut
& & &
seated and fool

shunt

5 Tedious Telephone Poems || Lanny Quarles

Capturing Your Tedius Precious Children On The Phone 1



the volumes feel blank, with the other
mothers, i stand in line with my santa
sac and gold teeth waiting for my turn
on the painted dot when the magnifier
will come on, each volume, the blur
of a starfish child spinning up to the
doctor's eye, the liquid bolts of the
painting move across the peaks of its
tin roof. this little thong is thinking
long, and this little package feel
a time to string. rolling the starfish
over onto its back, i notice its legs
are little children and x's, suddenly
i'm smoke again.

//

Capturing Your Mighty Tedious Phone Inside Its Child 2


the volumes begin to grow sugar, when their
unkempt bubble tears lay like rosy arms
in the stubble of our principles, the useless
bellowing of the car salesman's grotto
is released toward the buffalo of the street's
upturning grin, not what is not been going
on, but what is not has been going off,
or around the time of the tedious display
the affable unlucky staircase in its heavy
shoes could carry to the railless lifter
circle. mass modifications to bodies often
turn out faulty, not through any fault
of the body or the modification, just
the number of examples, and the felicity
of getting morphic ear, the crab's rudder
jawed antenna orchestra moving midnight.

//

Special Tedious Jellyfish Phone 3


the blank volume fit neatly like a tongue
in the mouth of the not nearly sister who
had just come out of the oven. when the
little book opened its mouth to speak,
we could see the edges of the earlier
tide pool with its little clumps of
salesmen and cars. i immediately
called over troy so he could sniff
glue up through its model and show
it pictures of swimming pools
running up the street to save our
mole chin convenience store the
trouble. the little volume was
okay, an ex-patriot dial-tone
played across its urchin display
sockets. i moved a fork over
to seal open its microphone.
good, i said. blank, it replied.

//

An Amazingly Tedious Stone Telephone Tidepool's Gumboot Requiem 4



in a volume shaped like a revolver, a whirling
letter came out dished up in a chiton's dotter,
the wavy brain it surfaced upon looked out from
a console of windows like a waterfall, while our
own good mary took the time to empty the entry
into a detective's office. office equals orifice-
tidepool, says our own good mary, the sons of goat,
beard an eight-piece valve, love coins shatter upon
deposit into the low patio. algae sings sweetly
atop dead animal telephones as they buzz around
inside the open prayer, ah, player, the rules
are posted near the art driller's locker room,
where often a girl that looks like mary comes
out wiping your mouth, the sea hare venus is
off its cradle in the tedious black brown red,
dead mud gets cut into pages again
and the sculpins is sure good.

//

Tedium Achieves Some Simple Cellfoonery 5



within the tedious tides brought in
by the terrabile cellfoon that day,
i had found a lithe little torque
of nudely branching barnacles clustered
closely to the tedium of the ages,
speaking in squeaks to an ear so
pounded by the crushing luminosity
of all forms so as to be recognize-
unable. and with the erect crystalline
magnifier petals of my enraging masque
of tedium, i turned the full brunt of
all speech upon the smoke-like haunts
of its wireless pool of little salesmen.

donny dug a starfish frisbee nipple
out of the corner of his eye and put
a patent pearl into the musical mucous
surrounding the tedium hole's shade head
paddles, whose sweet lissome voice
had been banalized by a billion children's
feet all stamping in unison for a hundred
trillion years, or a week, maybe, looking
up their wad counts and cucumber pants
in the tide-pool's outerest comynglinguagiam.

the dirty detective's shoe lace lapped
at a tedious tongue embedded within the
terrabile stone seance. the dreary pale
uneven resonances continued abatingly
onward as a blank furniture book came out
on the portico to chat with us awhile
after we died in the shark denture's
tinker garden folio.

in the world she said, and in tedium,
i intend to out-herod any odd hearing
herring herein, etc. i know you're all
phonies, i said, some sleep-themed
divinatory cells straightening out my
puppet's hoplite blemmy head, looking
around for fuel cakes amidst the starving
lower creatures, or their lovers, whose
political tediums scene for blank ridiculum
when the sun wine gloms englass.

it's a transparent ass-oppossum that enters
a holy knight's cheshire shell fin fustible,
where goodness gasps under the good, and evil
suffocates under the bad, all is lost when
vegetable time is regained, tedium reigns.

i see nothing in your eyes anymore, but
vegetable bridges to vegetable lands. she
stopped me right there. tide pools gave electric
johnson his only chance. i shrugged through
jointed appendages, often clawed with hard
exterior skeleton and bilaterally symmetrical
isopods, the fits we get in with the ur-chins.

i sing a little song then:

your chants in urgency grow
here in urchance, in your change
all the shanties know, what is
my shant is your agency, and
what shunts the hunt is a
bunting on blank volumes
sluicing tidal through
the whole, sweet tedium
as skeined in an

involuting
floral
engine

whose jeweled strings
pass through green nipples
which live on tufted flanges
around the whispering mouths
whose tiny pastel teeth of
lacy pollen get our tedium
to vellum what sage blankness
airs its rust these anemone
eyebrows dictate hush, ovarian
eye bushes hang heavy down
through its crust where another
tedium of mangled busts erupts
from the scum of twisted vegetable
mermiads the salesmen polish
with their choral head-wheel
helmets for dust.

suicide is tough
in a fog so thick
with substance and
instruments

where in a tidepool
can one go
to line one's membrane
with sanctified nudity

barkers harsh
the poor little harps
that find themselves
born in a cellfoon's
lobster gliding upward
for daze but then falling

a monumentally
primitive eye
scans the dead sky

and we all
roll over
in the dumb
head's tide

from THE TWELVE || Sheila E. Murphy

Apres-Midi

[ 1 ] He called her frail, the lady doth pre-test, incipient clover shadows hovered in or near the monocle.
[ 2 ] When someone says PAC-10, you are supposed to know who’s there, as in “knock knock,” and respond with a definite opinion.
[ 3 ] I could not help regarding her pale hands, following the doctor’s mention that we hold ours as though forming some kind of pact; to subtract my mother’s legacy would seem rude in the vernacular, but I did, and there it is.
[ 4 ] The piano is an objet d’art, so play your heart (out) to the world, especially at 4:00 while someone’s serving something tangible with something rinse-y.
[ 5 ] Posture and modulated tone poem, a lady does thus and so, and then what, service?
[ 6 ] All my syllables are offered chill, with you, my constant comet.
[ 7 ] Spores make light a nutrient until penetration of dark rescue.
[ 8 ] A spatula repairs coagulation to release inherent freedom, or simply fortify a habit.
[ 9 ] Space exhaled becomes a patch of innovation for another thought-spawn immigrant.
[ 10 ] Address, beginning something, words to act as seeds, inceptional as white grapes.
[ 11 ] Receding into repeat naivete, the lawn boy chops a branch and calls it an intention.
[ 12 ] Stippling creates a quilt that should be seen from distances quite plural and detached.

from AT || jim leftwich

1.

with or in or near the ear or near a zone occupied by telephones, face an early space, as a market for our goals.
location with or in lactation or the position of positive rotation; always by my side and in a mudslide.

2.

or that, or in the direction of that position, especially a fork thrown at a target; the masters came at us from all sides.

3.

on the field and in the curse; to dance alone at midnight on the moon.

4.

at the time of our duration: it will soon be noon, at a glance.

5.

the status bars initial conditions: at peace within his conscience or in pieces as a concession.

6.

in the minefield of business as qualified by a chess match but not so good at math.

from ENTRANCES || john crouse

Repressed, repression repressive reprieve. Reprimand reprisal reproach. Reproachful reproduce reproduction reproof reprove. Repudiate repugnance. Repugnant, repulsive, reputable.
Reputation repute reputedly request. Require required requirement.
Requisite requisition rescind. Rescue research resemblance, resemble resent, resentful resentment reservation reserve. Reserved reservoir reside, residence resident residue resign. Resignation resigned resilient resist resistance.
Resistant, resolute resolution resolve resort resound, resounding resource, resourceful respect. Respectable respective respects respite respond. Response responsibility responsible, responsive rest restful restitution restive, restless restoration restore.
Restrain restrained restraint, restrict restricted restriction, result resume resurrect resurrection, resuscitate retain.
Retained retaliate retard, retch reticence. Reticent retire retirement retiring retract.
Retreat, retrench retribution retrieve retrograde, retrospect return reveal revel. Revelation reveler revelry revenge, revenue reverberate revere. Reverence reverent reversal. Reverse review, reviewer, revile revise.
Revision revival revive revoke, revolt revolting.
Revolution, revolutionary revolve.
Revulsion reward.
Rewarding rhetoric. Rhetorical rhyme. Rhythm ribald, rich. Riches richly rid.
Riddle ride, ridicule rife rifle rift, rig right, righteous, righteousness rigid rigor. Rigorous rim rind ring rise riot. Riotous ripe. Ripen riposte, rise risk. Risky risqué rite. Ritual rival rivalry road. Roam roar rob. Robber, robbery robe robot robust, rock rocket rocky rod, rogue role roll romance. Romantic room rooms roomy root, rope roster rostrum rosy rot. Rotary rotate rotation rotten.
Rotund rough, round roundabout, rounds rouse. Rousing rout, route routine row rowdy, royal rub.
Rubbish ruddy rude, rudimentary rudiments rue, rueful ruffian, ruffle rugged ruin. Ruinous rule ruler ruling ruminate, rummage rumor, rumple rumples, run runaway rundown. Runner, running, rupture rural ruse, rush. Rushed rustic rustle rusty rut ruthless.

from Remove A Concept vol 01 || peter ganick

*1

attractable, this moment you sleep thru,

how unknow from light,

remove any flighty,

docile burning tread that romance of shake,

possible to refill &

that powerful as inclement,

(stay here there)

any levelled barbarian,

whose cut-up, a laugh,

emotions favor th pasha

eclipsed to insert as visible to techniques of emasculate for a

search pardoned relapse, go

blind to th heart, go ...

*2

hearing a listen to encount

a flame released too hardly necessity, as

purchase on,

a related-for-limit, however th station

needles for

crisis,

martial anarchists,

ghost-ridden this astrologic theatre,

survived in apprentice,

demanded as to

like a compromise sermon

deduct before direct,

adam or th bird cigarette, no hollow

thrufare more

give (to you) ...

*3

simplicity,

night,

th garish of pod, a rake in toothed incense,

whose (defect cd other) now a

frame collapsed in

tense

lone th parish in

temerity

(which of whom)

demand this

slow silent (surface

adjective, their is

comment) rude to parking lot

already than ...

*4

car neutral substance,

black & white chex, their

holiday intact, a blemish

no scar,

already to decide reprobate, tho

when longer

they feet upon couch

remove & apply,

th home strut (vast) of an

articulation, slur beep beep, sudden their

slow ghosts' commerce,

tones to remove apperceive th cut in nine,

positively (arrayed in woman) fore pastime

yr agglutination, some

restrict

is an oven ...

*5

only on th floodlit are approve

to can control,

is ego than noise, no

hearing pressures th miniscule (that

left intact) focuses upon,

remind, remove

as crucial blossoms into nucleus, a

filly blate overshoe, his

concern w/ muse: &

allergy removed from

somersault ,

to espouse th

ingredient ...

*6

when almost conduit,

smart concentrated on freezer noises,

deep stray last year,

accrue is mentative,

swarthy in collar,

eels for locus of

paramecium,

(perhaps first) that ocean

a song in ton of metal,

soft shake, cant decide,

untried or fuses into,

reprimand to all his trouble,

false then appeasement, (always

more cars, more true than elate), from,

his accusatory,

tables accompany to unease, as

fool in trust to being's ruling self. th

cart on never stops ...

*7

hidden to serene any detail,

once perdition puff nose,

each once a while (relook for genre)

no no that kid a lot

unsure as a release small is disturb

th serenity & a month to leave out

of that wholeness deeded reciprocal,

grateful to eclipse & only coughs th roost,

(gabardine) hand on neck

is where streaks

gather wisdom to go out ...