haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Feast

I celebrate the virtuoso organist, latest descendant of E. Power Biggs, whose vinyl I would check out from the South Bend Public Library at age 16. Would crank to sky that feeling of commingling. Now I feel as tall as then. The principal endeavor, being here. My thanks all go to privilege, being ever the servant of escape from my mistakes. Such plural individuals. Now shining daylight presses on a toned reciprocal entwining. I have listed everyone in prayer. I wear a jacket laced in black with dark blue-red tones. I have spoken early to my neighbor and her sweatered dogs, and to others who have made quadruple shots of caff-. What kind of daylight is prescribed for underlying darkness? The soul amounts to what we think will last. So much connection, day in day continuo. As bandwidth focuses the possible, posses gather to protect who will be served. An insistent person tasked with how the love will be distributed, to amend the prior days. Poor souls damaged, having been so like ourselves, each coming day in tune with north forever. 

Magnum opus, variation on an opulence, calisthenics lending tacit strength to what seems usual

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Cordials
 
"Million Dollar Baby" spills from pores of the portable radio. All the neighbors I can think of are asleep. Last night, some gifted us a bag of oranges. Wrinkled skin resembles seasoned trumpet sound. Soon joined by the fiddle of materal ancestry. I define experience by decibels. When holidays call to mind that I have missed something, I remember I can gradually retrieve or reinvent near parallels. When it is time to settle, I will be known by definitions I imposed on others' will. That my experience resembles  moments yet to be achieved.
 
Champagne brunch, black coffee, precious mushrooms after which the soup is named, allowing days to write about the other days
 

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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3 poems || Keith Higginbotham

saffron waxed

a dentist obstacles beneath
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from 'text' || Peter Ganick

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poem || Steve Dalachinsky

father & son (after cole swenson)

molten glass is like a river
flow of lava from an extinct volcano
now a window into the past &
possible future
the father & son deal with images
one must look @ even if one were
deaf
one must blow to make the river still
blink to make the window move

(painting is cinema & vice versa)

the river becomes a window
the window a river
(or vice versa)

dalachinsky paris 12/20/10

poem || Steve Dalachinsky

the river becomes glass

molten glass
is like
a
river
flow of lava from
extinct
volcano (in auvergne)
now a window
into the past
& possible future
both father &
son deal w/images
that one must look at
even if one were
deaf
one must blow
to make the river
still
blink to make the
window
move.

dalachinsky @ swenson reading paris 12/22/10

poem || Jeff Harrison

Vistas
 
you'd have yourself echoed millionly for our stars, Virginia,
rubber-stamped daily & nightly, decked with crystal & dew?

done!, since the recent sum of human reflection
on Sthenno's decor has, Virginia, crystallined you many,
companioned wide! your echoes do immobile steadily grow -

but our (gudgeon, quarry, & aim - yes, aim, despite entreaty
lyric & entreaty prosaic!) apprehensions, Virginia, rarely fly slower

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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poem || Steve Dalachinsky

ecole de rue des martyrs


all that remained
was one black
glove
where the children just seconds
ago
played wildly like a tribe
unruly yet semi-disciplined
white / bourgeoise
i stood transfixed
watching them chase eachother about
frenzied - shouting
5 yr olds at most
in the yard of the small private
school
they never noticed me
it was the first sunny day
in 2 weeks
all that remained of the previous
day`s blizzard
was the wet slickness of the cobble/
stones they trounced on
one child sliding every now &
then
twisting  - tugging  - pulling
i stood  - seeing into - thru  - beyond
them
remembering nothing of such a
life
but yearning for this nothing
none-the-less
the old fashioned hand pulled bell
rang
signalling the end of recess
in the recesses of my memory
i remembered this
the children rounded a corner
& disappeared one by one
until finally all that remained
were 2
the one small child in the
hooded red overcoat
who had desparately tried to
fit in somewhere
& a taller seemingly older
girl in yellow
who held tight to the back of
her coat - pulling tugging -
not letting go
her coat stretching like a
flare
in the cold air
as she tried desparately to
escape -
finally she was released
the yard now
empty
but for the silence of
dripping water
&
one
black glove.


dalachinsky paris 12/11/10

poem || Anny Ballardini

Dogs and churches
 
In the same way dogs piss at all corners, she cries in all churches_
a father sleeping beauty is not every day’s doom;
eyes popping out of her orbits –
front-lobes scattered who knows where for her
not to think properly and this the whole day/night.
Is it them, her dearest enemies,
who keep on forbidding health to return, Hippocrates Oath’s betrayers?
They still wander in the thick dimness of their consciousness
in white coats white immaculate coats –
like the ruffles in Elizabeth the First’s time –
[no highbrow-ed connection with blue collars –
unless to steal what is due to them –
be it treatment or hard earned wages]
ironed by clandestine hands fed with the crumbles
of their redundant salaries untouched by their fast slimming diets.
Tennis & golf. Hairdresser’s chat. Otium.
This what you came all the way down here for?
Miserabilia.
 
haha_
 

from 'text' || Peter Ganick

2521 decorous tine rill on orts ask vessel renovate iterating listless amphitheater inversely candle rawhide mobilize conundrum exist veena goers thoroughly potash track possibles there wile profligate nth emotions.

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pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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