Saturday, December 4, 2010

poetry || Hugh Tribbey

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Increment Weather

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text || Edward Nichols




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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

A Moment About Silence

If you craft the month into your wish list of in-particulars, your heat lake surely will advance. I am warming you and all your decibels. The tree scape and the window and the volatile injunctions patch the wonder of lived fields. The internal clock upon our mantel piece shims forethought. Any old dissension caps off shores. The wash and wave of stacked detritus draws eviction. Only those who capture care will norm their way out of the choral votive flights of dance. I'm warning you, repeats the mind. I'm listening, interjects the slip of stain. Of all the nerve, society releases. Laps and lapse go driving. And until we wait for full performance, there is nothing perfectly untried. The child one never had, one never bathed, one never held. This lift in a lone musical phrase means brass, means wood, means skin. Conductors take our time. We ease away. From north to vault and ceiling-ed poses. Are there situation ethics to be dreamed? If heart were just collapsible, then we would overcome our choice points. If our razor-thin remarks held sway, the venture capstones would dismay. For now, there's only hesitation that competes with blazing lamps along the trail. That we can talk about. As if to preclude hailstones from descending on our drums.

Voice, its capsized absence, how we look into the others' eyes and capture intonation

poem || Matt Margo

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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from ACTS || Jim Leftwich & John Crouse

ACT SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN


distrust sickness sonfidence: "rash (foible) deny"

slowdown remedy heist: "(narrative) cooperates downturn"

cooperaion fearless depressing: "distaste carrier ringing"

narration severe optimistic: "roost (faintly) socks"

rely knock doubt: "reverent (earlobes) remedial"

feeble saintly cringing: "thickness doubtful (optometrist)"

brash boost barrier: "repression (feisty) (swordfish)"

frank border ineptitude: "titanium protoplasm aloud"

torment spatter perpetually: "ferments rank porous"

shroud aide cavity: "plantain aside (sputtering)"

bombast maintain appease: "disorder (courageously) applause"

titanic pious discouragement: "(civility) perpetual altitude."




ACT SIX THOSUAND FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT


robbery sparkle assessment: "doorstop brooding gradations"

undo liable fibber: "treble (intimations) heatstroke"

sweetheart openhanded purgatory: "libido probability (humidity)"

animation autonomy droop: "screed posits popularity"

trouble unpopulated cheerful: "anatomical operetta librarian"

degrade possible unselfish: "sparring technicalities scry"

mood free awry: "shellfish (beerhall) snoop"

moorings humiliate technique: "interrogatory blubber investment"

groan inaccurate fumble: "profane matriculates discourse"

disposition commingle grenade: "grotesque unimpeded abscess"

manifold absent pedestal: "communist bifurcated antennae"

profound unimportant inattentive: "toadstool gregarious fumerole."




ACT SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE


avow basis bulge: "(punctuated) theosophical crumbs"

decree accident elegant: "potato surfictional creed"

absurd embargo obviate: "arrowhead unwound acidity"

protract stress prevailing: "uninsured trestle imbroglio"

frcund assurance forestall: "ambient oasis lottery"

thrust acrid shoddy: "hopscotch foreclosure counterintuitive"

compact wound loiter: "interstate eggplant divagations"

wordy sadness wander: "starship inhalant visitor"

twist knowing warlock: "wisteria hurtle crustacean"

vigor obtain loner: "(oblong) tantamount rowboat"

exile obligation deadly: "desalinated popsicle readerly"

fellowship cessation copse: "(toner) weaponized dandruff."




ACT SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY


(virgil) (moscow) (collecting): "reign topping chimera"

(comrade) (visionary) (baggage): "(warehouse clockwork) amphibian"

(amorphous) (announces) (pissing): "communal vigilance discouraged"

(frock) (mention) (mysteriously): "(apricot) persona urchin"

(metropolis) (lunch) (must): "moistener nonce (revisionist)"

(whimsically) (personally) (credentials): "cowl (fricative) emulsion"

(stoop) (unicorn) (mansion): "prudential musky steroids"

(rain) (courage) (africa): "(passage) beverages (criterion)"

(fate) (laden) (alley): "amortize conflated augmentations"

(daughters) (flowers) (points): "futilitarian buckles grinder"

(confides) (grouch) (cambridge): "flotsam (ladle) telepathic"

(american) (luck) (telegram): "umbrage (anoints valley)."




ACT SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY ONE


lactone mayor weeping: "askew tireless homily"

servants cavities carbohydrates: "dictated political lawnmower"

owner formation languid: "savant lactose monosodium"

polite infant varnish: "pacific rubbery adage"

dedicated ladder brevity: "phantasm normative caveat"

family robber molecule: "brayer sipping broomsage"

hired space restroom: "cuticle levity vanished"

cashew monovalent slipper: "squid carbuncular sweeping"

ballgame hormone crackers: "missal plover recipe"

reciprocating vivacity harborage: "gamblers pendulous dreadnought"

hangover deadlock hanover: "audacity harmolodic greasefire"

dismissal suspending easygoing: "overstocked whalebone snickers."




ACT SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY TWO


hangman various attacks: "foil meringue present"

services flexible nausea: "biological brutality choice"

chance (activity frequented): "since angstrom snack"

british long (badger): "definite containment light"

bacterium sleight gallery: "tong reactive lexicon"

(representative entertainment illusions): "spurious warring taxes"

harangue infinitive saxony: "illuminations gully lodger"

(royal) (knack) (worry): "frequencies nautical attached"

intoxicated conversationalist funnel: "covey smarter libertine"

alibi (as some): "taxi curt tooth"

(arts) to talk: "ashen versatility declassified"

convey curving upperclassman: "stalk dome tunnel."




ACT SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY THREE


alphabet is usually: "(apples) beasts painfully"

upheaval is secondhand: "senseless (unrest) shovel"

honest is uprising: "elephant behooves (presidential)"

senses is presumptuous: "signs scepter surprising"

disdainfully is designating: "unusual (apples) beasts"

breasts is residential: "plainly (senseless) hornets"

topple is behaves: "coeval (elephants) halves"

unincorporated is lather: "is is is"

enhancement is straits: "(is) is is"

earthquake is interchangeable: "is (is) is"

stroke is faith: "is is (is)"

topmost is narcotize: "(is is is)."

poem || Alan Sondheim

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3 poems || Philip Byron Oakes

Canticles of Tweety Bird

The dawn humbling the ugly in a subplot to breakfast, the vernacular over easy. Succumbing to a caress in absentia left as legacy, to roil on the anesthetic plateaus of a common sense. On the crystal balls of those feet that know where they’re going, when the fire alarm sounds like the call of the loon. A whimper still bursting with flavor. Stippling the remoteness of cherished moments. The safe side of a callous worn as armor, to atherapy for tender feet in the quicksand of sensation steering the bus towards the beach. A vista one blink removed. Paradox with wings and a flight plan. The russet apple in the weathered hand with bones shopping for the taste of home. Tactile theorems only touched upon in pointing out the window. A jagged variant of a pulse brushing up against a time, for turning ploughshares into a music you can dance to.







Medias Res

The fruit flies factored in the calorie
count of dessert, when eaten on the
run for roses upon the grave matters
that lay before us. No if’s, and’s or
clauses mauling grizzlies with
connotations in the wilderness. The
minty concoctions of the pastoral
serving as a stipend, for a shepherd
of souls in the kitchen taking the
heat as a blessing to heart. As it
may seem without seeming so
much to matter, in the end that is
the middle with no beginning at
all.






That Could

The dogeared mesmerist chanting mantras
to rhythms the railroads made famous in
scrapbooks of noise. Marking the spot where
the world fell to earth, as if it had been there
all along. Always leaving someone left
standing, without a precipice from which to
jump for joy. A distance prized for its brevity
in getting to the point of no return. Hanging
curtains on the rubble to spice the light
looking in, on a privacy collapsed under
the weight of a secret, taken as a
window on more than the world
can hold.

poem || Jeff Harrison

Virginia Immortalized By Devotion

A great sense of economic following
the interest will hold coquettish discharges
the old conduct like one preparing fidelity
Virginia immortalized by devotion
(which above is the title line), whilst Jeff Harrison
attracts exquisite associates with a glass of runaway discharges
diffidence to slavery underwent that burning

sit and see these phantoms, at least in conflagration
you must throw out festivity, at least in conflagration
no computer program can get this money
Virginia in a corner of an enormous business

transportation by the event ---------------> EVENTS VERY FINE
a threat of the compendious afternoon haunting the high allegory
heels heeding talk ---------------> SENTENCES BENT FORWARD
I guess some breathe slower than others but it takes me days, weeks or
months to let out a breath, during which I am understandably apprehensive

texts || Richard Mason

jeder ihr eigener Fußball


change buds tasting apple spark tryst
bellowed firing over gut spew sinew
word absailing cretaceous droop much
effort it cost you enough to know what

gnawed at knowledge blooming
cut fine after hordes of beneath
catch at play ever so birdsong burst
eardrum sopranino ardour into fingers
balancing tipping far away rumble out of
ear hate on a stick lust ripple
unhappy days in sand how not to

play makes slaves read only
money er I mean I had a
special shirt it fraying in the wind

harvity blazer swell coffer brute
stain beech ether drifted fork
sheld ear a downs sherry
marsh dragon banana hose
engine plasma cerise-eyed drop
a full third scaped hitherto

years of teasel defy woolly
bears stalked an aphid bit back merlot
at sunset increment of heater no hawkers
no falconers no free papers no imprisoned
papers comfort cake slice colour in
foyer investigate poisoned lawn write about
talk about do anything but that
anything but that anything anything I’d
do anything failing that nothing



japanese banjo

jag älskar dig jazz/noise
anita im glück mit
hanni no the smash
rückstoß gondoliero

lieber hönig 最愛の蜂蜜
дорогой мед αγαπητό μέλι
cher miel 귀중한 꿀dear honey

who sat with me in this
rowing boat I tell you
I wanted to fuck the programme
and fuck the lilac angel

wasn't a moment I thought
mmmmm spontaneous than
today totally different story

endlose gerade a picture
driving down a long
lane keep moving stay in
motion be driven by drive


annie went to norway artist sand
in gearbox nothing to smoke
so much psychology


I prefer to listen into
myself © for all texts +
pictures I am sorry if
sometimes I just stop





scale model

dope grape achele
zaber vase druff you
can make anything
you want

with your head
alpha 77 electronic
risorgimento colours glancing

sound dope on glider
decals paint before fix otherwise

oops

spoo

esiwrehto
77
ahpla daeh
redilg
epod deppilc
ouy
ngised


understood distance struts
make house paper I
wonder design

function clipped
phrases
jaki
never said that
conundrum makes for bed
cut away
in castle better
equipment







cinch




spindly killer


those bad habits off
kilter a banjoist was

shocked to learn of
without so much as

vapid glare of cliché
or a mutative report

[caught in brackets]
word stopped bullet

me I was out of town
under sum pressure

that saved not a face
or nothing else 4 that

brut farce do buffet
mirror nor hammer

spin curving culture
put a kettle on what?






the life and death
of soppy the pirate


[theme song = soppy soppy
soppy the pirate sails the 7
seas ¯¯ a most ghastly din]

[NB for those who dunno each
week soppy besmirch tv
screens of millions of innocent
children with his unspeakable
pathetic sucky whingey show]

finally great day dawn
soppy meet v. bad man +
simper tweasure tweasure
got any tweasure v.
bad man retort it’s
pronounced treasure ya
puny scum henceforth I
keeeeel you ð he do so w/
gratuitous violence + blood

\ no more soppy good job
too as he suck children of all
ages cheer + celebrate madly
when his death announced




mousse



trembling matter poured
over the back of a spoon

so it floated then blistered
in glow of roman candle

surveillance is unending
so be deaf to all warnings

gecko remained stoic
in consideration of others

no blanket was spread no
boat bound for somewhere

advice never asked for in-
variably ends up in places

I think you’ll find a pot of
rain at end of the towrope



hardy cutup


Leaves be far breeze, through from me: around
the day to when you are thin here

Heard you fair first from you ------- You would,
hear? Be across me to wistlessness

But it missed, I, the falling Wind ------- Thus how
thin from changed around to gown!

Or faltering, town was air-blue then. Leaves to
call, to air-blue me, But view ------- again hear?

Even you to me: town ------- be me: call more to
you forward -------- Where near?



grut


add to diction ignore rule
the dogs it was that died

pour gravy over what it is
go and sit upon your arse

big jim not him amok time
veal hydrochloride please

no engine driver he ssssh
be guided abated sounds

harmonia baritone concert
-ina unequivocal vocalese

lying in the road full of lye
do you want to save o yes



music

gut-wrenching kids collecting
to copy genius musicians
narcissists knowing anymore without merit

lowlife smoke albums chit-chat
goddamn pretty editor say dig
year’s music stuck but do that

loaded palatial collection
narcissistic friends snivelling some have
money dissatisfaction among peers

heart weary with shit genuine
reason heard before meaningless
spending compels cruddy thinking

goddamn fans stuff musicians credibility
fading give critics shit
overworked assholes rotten friends

talk money hand-rolled paragraphs

------------------------------------=

or most, then having wildly fled: this is the heart of the social,
selving among selvings , inscriptions among inscriptions. (while
everything else tends towards the imaginary: wha t would it be like,
what occurrence, we're lost...

------------------------------------=

r what occurs as bodies switch, are there bodies here? flesh and blood
among the exfoliati ons? or at the least, gluons communicating among
selves wildly channeling. in this window of a minor key among others,
framed and held (within an imaginary - not a w orld, one must consider the
consequences of the absence of boundaries... we're lost, aren' t we?

------------------------------------=

ons? or at the least, gluons communicating among selves wildly channeling
in this window of a minor key among others, framed and held (within an
imaginary orld, one must consider the consequences of the absence of
boundaries... we're lo t we?


or most, then having wildly fled: this is the heart of the social,
selving among , inscriptions among inscriptions. (while everything else
tends towards the imagi t would it be like, what occurrence,
we're lost...

------------------------------------=

or most, then having wildly fled: this is the heart of the social,
selving among , inscriptions among inscriptions. (while everything else
tends towards the imagi t would it be like, what occurrence,

we're lost...here it remains broken, we're split, boolean combinations
cracked into into closed sets: the social is a world of virtual
particles, virtual events:: it's that, isn't it? already an
accomplishment: the INDEXICAL.

(it's left at that)

------------------------------------=

or most, then having wildly fled: this is the heart of the social,
selving among , inscriptions among inscriptions. (while everything else
tends towards the imagi t would it be like, what occurrence,

we're lost...here it remains broken, we're split, boolean combinations
cracked into into closed sets: the social is a world of virtual
particles, virtual events:: it's that, isn't it? already an
accomplishment: the INDEXICAL.

(it's left at that)

------------------------------------=

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Candid Shot

I smell chlorine and humidity combined. An echo lodged within the half transparent bubble might resemble a safe zone. Shielded from the thought of snow. Warmth balances the psyche prone to zeal when finding freshness. Having waited all day for a darkening purple sky to find the light of stars. A big plucked moon, accessible. Midnight insists itself upon a daylight crowd that seeks a quiet cover over thought. As the desire for unexpected solace when a loss is formed. Composite memory, chastened by a blend of expectation and surprise.

Performed charisma, wood tone as the goal, the gravitas of a cappella

Sheila E. Murphy

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

poems || John M. Bennett

)icon(

)bomb glob( )knock gland( )tool(
)jut( )whump foot( )corner scandal(
)jerk plot( )spool load( )neck(
)yet( )center stool( )dung bone(
)buy feeler( )crown butt( )lex(




Dirt Knoll

(swifter) (shoe loot) (bog lock)
(rot tool) (luggage hair) (jut)
(blot) (role furnace) (sole glistens)
(news birth) (plan soaker) (foils)
(jumper) (joins armpit) (inhale heaven)




Liricism

● the kidneys the dust ● lake defect ●
● suit shutter )calm( ● ratted corner ●
● ah dog horizon ● plenitude and flocking ●
● flack blister now ● sacks of lids ●
● closer to my dry ● plopping arm ●




Thermal

.. read the soak .. plucky gun ..
.. grasping turning cragging .. bit nut ..
.. jest itcher ,flies .. god napkin ..
.. fister insecticide .. stun ,shot ..
.. brack torn sigh .. sure wobbles hot ..




Seal

kiss the murtal .)(. foggy floater
stopping the cloke .)(. butter gnat
loomer beast your .)(. hand swallow
murciélago de culo .)(. wand soap
why my your slung one .)(. lobe bunter




The Floater

dark shot your lens (.) boomer bloom
my hanky floats across (.) your skull lint
bean and flood thought (.) hog the cough
aspic and a pants shadow (.) smote through
insolación y multitud de (.) sondearme

poem || Anny Ballardini



Vogue:
Black Boots

Good soft leather Italian Fashion
tubular, slightly pointed, solid
stable heels,
about 2-300 euros, like nothing.
That the price of your father’s imminent death,
a pair of Black shining boots
on fashion, Italian style,
a shimmer of satisfaction as if stolen from
the glittering windows of a central shop,
the act of purchase:
a frozen strawberry that melts
on your carefully glossed lips,
a sparkle of defiance in your eyes,
your eyebrows stiffed high.
The more I know you,
the more your remind me of the Nazis,
the much you said you despised them.
Pasolini would have chosen you
as his main character in Sodom and Gomorrah,
had he only met you.


Sunday, November 28, 2010

two pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

ge[ne]sis[lo]uver[1 ][1-5] [re]is[sue]


[fir][fi]rst[go]dma[deh]]eave[nan]dear]ththe[ear]

thw[aswi]thou]tfor[man]dvoi[dan]dda[rkne[sswa

a]supon[th]efac[eof]th]ed[e]ep[an]dth[es]pir[ito]

fgo[dw]as]mo[ving]ov[erth]efac[eof]th[ewa][[ters

an[dg]odsai[dlet]the[rebe]ligh[tan]dthe[rewa]slig

ht[an[d]go[dsa]wth[at]th[elig]hwa[s]goo[dan]d[g

o]dse[par]ate[dthe]lig[htf]rom[th]eda[rkn]ess[go
dcal[led]thelig[hda]yand[theda]rk[n]e[s[s]h[eca]

l]le[dni[gh]t[a]nd[the]rew[a[seven]in[ga]nd[th[ere

]wa[smor]ni[ng]on[eda]y][ere]wa[smor]ni[ng]on]




[gen[]esi[s 1] 9[-]1[3]

[an]dg[od]sa[id]le]t[t[he]wa]ter[sun]de[rth]ehe[a

ven]sbe[gat]he[red]t[oget]her[i]ntoo[nep]lace[an
dle]t[th]edr[yla]ndap[]pea[rit]w[as[so]go[dca]l[[[

led]th[e] dr[ylan]dear[than]dth[ewa]ters[th]atwe[

rega]the[red]tog]ether[h]ecal[led]seasand[go]d]s

a[w]tha[tit]wa[sgoo[dan]dgo[dsai]dlet[th[eear]th]]

p[utf]or[thve]geta[tio]npla[nts]yie[l]ding[se]edand

[fru]it[tre]esbe[aring]frui[tin]w[hich]i[sthe]irs[e]e[d

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Empathy

When it rains onscreen on field, it is our rain. Cold within the home, I wish a fireplace for the players. Warm food, fellowship, as if my own. We read new research showing where psychopathy and business risk are joined. Outside of here, the weather constantly perfects itself. Lures players from a wide range of locations. Spectators, as well. I watch the wet ball cross the wet field, teams earn a host of quite unlikely scores. What registers is our success, claimed over decades of participation by association. From my childhood home, the short path to the field earned resilience over time. Tonight, darkness anoints the home with comfortable legroom. One sews; one draws. The heat pours wall to wall, despite the lingering feeling of cold. I read by heart. I watch action figures preen along appointed places on the field. In the space beyond the boundaries of the game, orchestral rests leave measures of thought open to the instruments guarded on the field by plastic sheets.

Distance traveled by the mind, a body gradually imagined, place-based levity after intensity