poem || Zachary Scott Lawrence

His equine face;
he compounded life upon life,
fluid upon fluid,
his first rule was
to never look –
it flared
and had stored his jacket
moth-eaten and tattered,
walking through the industrial district
by the cotton hood
and had a dragging existence,
unending, unwavering? 
There for this chemist of souls,
he strode away,
he bent his eyes,
and it swirled massive,
in her voice came
from the tension in pine boxes:
letters, handwritten books …
what is there was no motion. 
That gave him the water
from the switches
for a mission.
 
He pressed plungers
just a hair too far. 
He never asked,
and it was to protect
but to walk towards,
and pulled a mission.
He pulled a steady tune. 
He chucked the end
of the lights bounced,
they sang a mission hymn. 
She asked. 
He pulled a mission. 
Sometimes, he flicked it,
with the cotton hood,
walking through the mist
that gave him running envelopes
to save for years,
like new-old-stock. 

He pressed
just a hair too far. 
The beating rain. 
The damp stone walls. 
He wiped the guy,
that old barman,
the first job washing dishes
and this chemist of the end
of his long ago.
The white, puerile halls,
sterile,
cold to the warehouse. 
He closed his teeth
with an instant.
It swirled massive,
in the choir rested.
Where will you go?
 
The white, puerile halls,
sterile, cold
to save for a mission. 
Footsteps echo
through the sun.
There at the open door. 
It caught up
in the water
from his long ago.
 
The white, puerile halls,
sterile, cold
to never look –
it was to protect
but decaying,
no face there
 
she turned,
eyes aglow,
and had been
so long ago.
 

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Fragment read, ingested, all four hundred forty-seven pages, 
not intended to convey the settled feeling of set piece. 
Generosity posthumously rendered fills both heart of giver 
and the heart of given. I saw  where he was going with 
the isolated beauty. Fair of face means licensed to excoriate. 
One surface deserves another. En plein air derives from 
litmus in an afternoon. Here all by oneself. Was rose then
drawn then slipping. Branch officious designation in the text. One
chair leg's friction with the floor. Rubbed wax. As if the story
changed all that. Moist thought of non-delivery, of exegesis.
Of incipient arrival, planned. The marzipan of half truth.
Storyteller's mortified (again). Level of raw, level of outage.

Plink, worthy of attention, the shouted punctuation

Sheila E. Murphy

2 poems || David Tomaloff

WILL CHAPTER IS I’M P0SSIBLE

Purpose post conclusions. Speech in background. Convention establishment, &remain profitable for the cause. Paint embankment implied escape. Eye period significance states implied challenges within. Concerned active—forgot all blank entity. Loose notes dated temperature; shut boat arm report—the sample provided. Stick somewhere varied financial &scientific goal items. Ex: will coal survive here? Surely with might, or incremental space-matter technique. Explain how tightly a dollar bill; assess option. Ex: how could tradition based system tether truth to outbid arbitrational agency claim? Any produce us shiny items. Was ever no gold. Ahead on our agreement—please explain nothing. At length, code. Round arguable seasons now; will chapter is I’m possible.


MONOLITHIC SOME ASSEMBLY ACQUIRED

Kitchen. Cover green. About aim &safe personal condition. Work impossible; acquired force notice pending. Form base realization &knee this—an animal. Acquire by use of basis sign, a man. Divide until express level tips &conclude. Express absolute theory of motion: quickened, desisted, displaying content in code. Stray &populate active. Send or initiate surface-grade politics. Advance obvious next round culture servant. Church engine brother consists of be impressionism. European roots, &gender only. Enterprise to form cash flow &law image to create the reasonable citizen account. Reject all other development. Exquisite to unrest. Your square root becomes an infinite, & it guides you. Monolithic involvement; some assembly acquired.

poems || Steve Dalachinsky

Sq. Georges Cain ( in 3 Movements ) - for P. D .

.....this poem, not the poem itself, not the writing of the poem, but the
"crafting" of the poem, 
is the fault of Paul Dutton after reading his book Aurealities.
 
1. in sq georges cain the fountain of roses spouts bronze beauty / naked
in garden of cain
orange/pink roses embrace body orange/pink body of bronze
where cain killed his brother & buried his body in a garden of roses
within a square of verdant flesh 
body of woman as old as a square rises in garden of pink cain 
rose after killing his brother roses of green embody her gentle turning
relics bathed in light as rising the swing of her posture circles the
square 
squarely within circle stone washed by seasons smiling frowning roses of
pink
gate squeaks open steps toward roses down to woman poured from fountain
2. in sq. georges cain 
pages are turned & returned to: she sits on the bench
twisting her body
impatient body
turning her frayed middle-age
randomly turning pages
trying in vain to read
the mind of a stranger
turned pages returned to
squeaks gate
coughs cain
women’s voices sprout circle
the square of the garden
orange/roses green flesh of grasses
thin sunlit leaves
hands tampering with their own impatient 
clothing this need of flesh to hide flesh 
she twists slightly arching her towel swung behind her green gushing
woman
from fountain of roses this well pressed monday afternoon
in the square of the circle
in the garden of cain
with its impatient breathing
& agitated stillness
squeaking & fondling the shadows of daylight a faint far off whistle.
3. the simpler the better
the lonelier the easier
the happier the sadder
sq georges cain
stone roses bronze brother killed no fountain whirls slowly
round square cain’s weapon old anchor caught napping
mute expression
valid reasons have no story.
 steve dalachinsky written paris 8/13/01
revised nyc 8/24/01
 
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binoculars

her muscled legs 
walk her along the shoreline
she is a strong woman
despite her sagging breasts
despite the fact that she is no butterfly
attempting to cross the sea
no rock dividing bays
no balcony to stand on
the morning wafts across her back
becoming afternoon
she is no soccer ball
kicked between father & son
in the hot sand
no fresh pretzel
ice cold beer soda or tea
no spring water
but she is a strong woman
despite the fact that she is no white sail
in the distance
strong white sail
out on the distant sea -


steve dalachinsky nyc 8/01




the sea the sea
it’s been here since the beginning
of time
it was here when napoleon was here
when moses was here
hitler li po ceasar 
it’s been here since before 
the beginning
of time
& the smell gets stronger
ask lou he was a butcher
& the smell lingers & stays longer
like my heart 
when it was returned 
to me
6:30 she walked in & said
"your heart returned"
yeah you’re alive you’re alive
no that’s not what she said
she said " your heart returned"
it’s been with us a long time a long time....
steve dalachinsky nyc
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the complete works of Victor Hugo -
pt. 5 Jean Valjean

i have become a criminal 
long ago
in accordance with the history of crime
i am a criminal
even if only in my own eyes
the history of crime: pen inked
i scribble my exile
my dark souvenirs
onto my palm
it was my birthday too once!


steve dalachinsky paris 8/2001




rear window 1
 
she’s in her underwear
she’s fixing the curtain
she just took a shower
she’s vacuuming the house
she’s talking on the phone
finally that stool is occupied
she smokes with her left hand
while doing the dishes with her right
she has a tattoo above the left cheek of her arse
she has blond hair
dresses well
has a bicycle
stays up late
it’s hot it’s august
the room is empty
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
rear window 2


the girl across the sunlit alley
stands ½ naked by her window
most mornings
.....the sparrows are elongated & aggressive
it’s late afternoon
she’s wrapped in a towel
the curtains stop fluttering
she rests the towel on the window ledge
the towel says LUCKY STRIKE.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
rear window 3


up early.
clouds. downpour. clouds
vacuuming. washing floor.
making love almost an hr.
biting. fingering. playing around.
torturing exasperating breasts.
i tell her to keep her clothes on.
i naked.
she. more orgasms. wine.
me. thrust gently into her wine-filled mouth.
she drinks. swallows.
naked. i rise.
the girl across the way is drying her hair in the sun.
she’s been to the beach.
somewhere where it’s warm. no rain.
she sips her coffee. shakes out her towel. sniffs her duffle bag.
our love making has cleared the sky.


steve dalachinsky paris 8/01
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Richard Wright 
stuck in the
corner
by
the staircase
in black face & gold letters
with cobwebs
52 yrs. an exiled native son
oh black boy i place a paper flower beside your square.

steve dalachinsky 
written @ Pere Lachaise cemetery 8/01 where Wright’s ashes are interred.

poems || Jim Leftwich

from six months aint no sentence



utilitarian rot

built utilities tentative signifies rotting atlatl
the mud hut of the leopard bandannas on 
leprechauns the same bent slab of hint the 
same bent slab of nothing the same bent 
slab of inherent loot tally daily sabbath 
sobbing hurling stabbing hunting nothing
parameters along perimeters pare pairs soft 
off often fanged nothing gang nothing gala 
hooligan nothing gainful ganglia bile boiling 
nothing o tongue of uneven covens annul the 
manger masticating rot magick nothing nothing 
singing magick rot magick nothing singing rot

05.04.2011





The War on Metanarrative

cumulative loss salts gnat dawn at
nor counterterrorist angelfood belittles
metanarrative at last the puling 
hurrah or paratroopers materialized
in Honk Kong snare drums tapioca 
positivist snafu gaps Laos postmodern
mirrors stagger from Baltimore to 
Angkor Wat too lottle too late he was 
hang-gliding punitive junta taproot homo 
sapiens pajama been at it again tandem 
frog paralysis hopscotch and mediation

05.05.2011





a boat

bring the gnats axiomatic itinerary
to naysayers masticate bifurcations
of intentional nails in the same
whittled katydids to unwind each
day there are oppositional nocturnes
catercornered quotidian Mayakovsky
as if to say underground the logjam
billows past slabs of hidden nakedness
and the actualities turnip coffee houses
no more godforsaken gnawing
among the transhumant initiates

05.06.2011





about

more precisely big gates not 
gnats among the gathered timbers 
bang are singing in yarrow signs 
batik knots loblolly pines 
pataphysical honed lurking 
and wheat-gnosis beneath the 
bagman amen an abacus of
tulips dots hexagrams erasers

05.06.2011

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texts || John M. Bennett

 
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poem || Peter Ganick

things that relay warmth.


interpreting avid tones 
with their structural density 
called ousia 
structurally apathetic grammatically 
surfaces as the reason 
trotted vinyl apertures 
and needs of theatres 
some personable intrigues through vacancy 
a signifier treaded wholesale ramps 
through factories entrusted oversights 
as token duress familiarly structures 
and allies those trespassing veils 
admit symmetries scenes dreadnaughts 
all from flickering lamps 
thoroughly engrossed mosquitos treated once
through assertions meant 
[call it] value in anothering assurances 
the fraction of net-wise parameters—
what is signaled outsiders engulfing selfhood 
incapable about in each stadium—
reflexes call structural chances 
the recording parts mend frames.

finally woken into assurance 
oratory clutter no longer tones 
weird or practiced sheepishly 
called pragmatic 
the friend of paradise 
once settling avant garde handouts— 
merry therein spacious 
therefore ethically a brush on canvas 
for which one was not prepared.

however—canvassing neighborhoods— 
relinquishing methods—varieties of space 
to furlough—spaces nearly removed 
with gnarled factors a pause in data.

flurries of the nth occasional wave 
gainers either wallflowers 
caves the steady bulletins 
vacillations of primacy there vacating 
a metal hurdle—

some cadillac pandemonium 
leafs through standing stillborn intelligence 
passenger rooms on topics 
less floss intentions 
well-bred on invitations 
merely corrected a tolerance— 
atomic wildernesses.

a coincidental remake 
of volitional interdependence 
the standard item 
capitulatory as comprehension 
of a smallest podium—
notifiers performing jabs 
interminably 
those things reified 
intelligently wide of suchness 
wading permanence topically 
the structural inclemency. 

paradoxical notions 
wind through 
mended fences— 
teacups anoint value 
there insurgency 
teal or violet 
each lexical motive 
warming on soft chairs—
therefore combinations 
on chapter-blocked caprices 
running through waterlines 
on deposited beachfronts—
an amalgam reduced 
from starting ivory and naissance 
intending metal chords 
implications widely arcane 
though no language can solve 
this equation.

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poems || Jim Leftwich

partner

proprietary Mabuhay gardens
slinks paydirt catastrophe
apropos Day-Quil zinc dues
bloated on our office art they
got toys on the Ponderosa 
doing spice to diamond mine

05.04.2011





pampered salsa

downtown among the aging barbarians
ram's-head Abraham salt-pumice as if
this is some hireling pimento mortgage
iron lung of wages law of the puma and
Hiram the Hunter craft ruffians numerous
Kings construction alias worker banks
spelled now and blue skillful phrase-note

05.04.2011





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05.04.2011





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05.04.2011





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05.04.2011





mask

down the road handstands sang
ripe Horus amygdala sensorium
pentimento yes so they say we
the hangman even haymarket if
anarchists sable insulin unguent
ungulate at the sign of the geyser
horn we are drenched in blood
arcs at Tunisia at night in the
cobalt ambit an ambulatory
pandemic kite playgrounds
playthings in situ in shards
sinuous ying yang asemia
rebuilt circuitry logarithmic
arrhythmia binary arithmetic 
even around the ground round
well-lit at the steak unhurt
angstrom unheralded hints
of baked catapult pesto estimated
bardo resounds androgynous mask

05.04.2011

poems || Raymond Farr

A Depot of People Turned Accentual

Sorghum to the middle, a solipsism
Penciled in

Repeated as though, ontogeny
Penciled off-road, goes next to the wheel

The boa coming nightly, swan on the hub
Connected aisle 8, a bulbous one

This breathing, not simple
Towards kitchen city, an outlet of aspect

Construing apple, the sequence
An ape, a loon, the code, craving serendipity a loom

These ramparts’ art, gladiola vehemence
Manipulated gear box voluntarily, a stage, a presence both

Awesome chuckle up, would you?
Now boating, the off center persona

Shamrock to the mom, but a store, a star, Patagonia
Not ox-paint or lock up, awash in blank [       ]

Spaces—vertigo! Fall out! Alarum!

The nut is color, a plaza
Must grotesque you

These words are a purple, making a pond of
Hollow, in the wind a womb

A pantry, maybe hazard
Next vroom, vroom, a tire blown, bite down, a cove

I am setting you up, ice & five pentacles
’re groves by the roadside, hurry

Theater loops loop, hope in a box
Hard rock as inlay

False album is ribald, baubles of commentary
Sane & the office talks coolers, talks order & law

A depot of people, turned accentual
Down, as in emphasis on

The surreal is accidental, a moper on cloudless
Topples down hitches, on Ovid’s mgs, the antithesis

Tiny tiny plants & a
World that is corrugated via the digital, I wanna popsicle

Announcing the bog, a snail’s a suspend-noun
At once, a video charmer

Mecha— the spectrum
Du jour all alive, oh Arnold, I sd

The dean spasms, funny juniper laughing
Our wind tunnel, cranking off

In UFO Rococo, in reconnaissance
Ersatz askance, I view you 






Standard Package, All Crows’ Delight

I am located in Aberdineshire, what
The caul, is too far away, come

Sunday, the shoes in a Blue Bonnet
Matgarine box, tourist attraction per

Laundromat, ship it to 6,000 tons, facing
The yacht, I have few morals, four monarchs

Acquired by, sheep skin in taupe, a labyrinth
Of 20 bed rooms, a suite of battle

Blasters, reunited by sheer will
Power of the potentates, riled up




Spice Traders, Got Milk?

I sd share not scare, I went
To a Mets game, conceding you’ve

Got blisters on yr fingers, babe
Article 5 of the pertinent document

Has brkn ground, spice traders
Got Milk?, supply & demand, as in

Red Guard washing blouses, if you
Are a hooker, ground yrself

w/On Star navigation $159/month equals
7 reasonable seafood entrees, spicy

Brown mango, harvest blends at small town
Vermont, I must call you

A curious chemistry aficionado, what if
Flu shots for everyone, disregard the

Digital database doing harm, hey
Dad, what’re you doing here?

poem || Edward Nichols

DEAD  MEAT


Everything's becoming clear, now it's more complicated than ever, Life, for me, has started anew; it seem's as stale as moldy bread.

Have you anything my compatriot, a able tonic for the head to set this all aright. So I'm not left here, through fresh and neew, to rot like a refined corpe, who's been buried in the most adrantageous of circumstances.

I've leisure at every command, yet mh time seems to run shorter, want you stay with me, even though I'm surrounded by well-wishes and companion by the scare and be my alby my friend.

Man or woman, I care not, whisper sweet nothings, in my ear, even though they fall immediatley wilted and dead, won't you my friend help to relieve me from this awful dread; That sometimes I choke an, like food consumed to fast, and give me another dose, filled, if even fakly, with compassion and care.

Denial of the Spirit,
It's life, it's the fear in it.
Denial, a three headed dragon, a Hydra,
The codes on the codes on.
Three headed Dragon; a Hydra-
The Codes-on The Codes on.
The mad Hatter speaks in codes.
Down In Alices hole.
Denial of the Spirit,
It's life, it's the dear in it.
Confusion. Contiusion's.
I've reached a conclusion, a solution.
Denial, a three headed dragon, a Hydra,.........................
Codes On. Codes On.

poem || Peter Ganick

engines and reflectors.


a salutation whose empiric is
closer than dolce ratchets a heroiade 
its manifold spate a purest sortie—
hypnotizers—evaluations—
mounting evaporators.

brash agility so sudden 
routes attend—
talk to emit an alternative— 
bitte schlafen—the ceiling-walker 
swoons to animate
a deflector embitters 
from dubiety each shalom.

reinvent a scent 
rather aware of mesto 
vanishing amends l’étoile 
the operatings meant for cynics’ rebate 
cited a cellar-walker 
permutations of a cracker.

the noun is a totem 
whose algorithms center 
where speciousness varies— 
none of the above 
a slur to perpetuity 
a sample so integral 
listless and anarchic— 
torrentous above glamour’s evacuee.

the water crasher wonders: 
ultimates—extrema—
calumnies—throes of persistence.

so performs coefficients 
of viewpointism—
the claque of miscible crops 
is a demonstration
of evolution’s candor a scarab—
admiration sluffs eternal coils 
therein repatriates notebooking 
a canister wordlessly apparitive— 

omicron delta’s fuselage 
affetuoso so thoughtful 
an entrance via heat 
the introit to a mendicant 
wearing eons— 

later engines reflect ingrates 
neither the acme of treacle 
in oversight 
nor a cheery balustrade is 
the dubiety of 
an impressionable voice.

poems || Hugh Tribbey

SAYS RUSSIAN CLOAK

says Russian cloak

the closet our comic crumbling

possible with camera to the clocked masonry

to two prisoners the by-accident

news in black gold on A

never in on an I

gave his smoked opium a hooked spectacle

or scent to head million

the town-tricked journey


smuggled out of war

here’s who guns whether comes

hounds mountain



WOBBLIES IN THE OIL FIELDS



waiting officers bound Belgium Liberty Industrial end syndicalist

I.W.W. national

trade  historian existing

one industrial labor

fatal include equipment lumberjacks Dakotas said



weeks Oklahoma better better life I.W.W. even Socialist

Initially November

Tulsa harvest either

Oil iron local’s

fields immediately enterprises demands swimming



working Oklahoma best both I.W.W. estimated struck

including native-born

truth hours euphemisms

Opponents I.W.W. least

fired I.W.W. explosion Louisiana day series



Wichita Old Bill Boyd incriminating eleven state

I.W.W. needed

true Haywood eye

Oklahoman I.W.W. limit

fire I.W.W. ended Leavenworth down Socialist



war Oklahoma Boyd based intended exterminating silencing

I.W.W. National

telephone headquarters Executive

Oklahoma I.W.W. 

poems || Jim Leftwich

from six months aint no sentence

the eros effect

damaged packaging agog the
ruddy moon sailing for Snark
and snipe-hunting with Jesus
agony of feathers fits bite and
waist whiskers scratch sleep
until noon or later than you
think pogo cataract marooned
nutmeg newspapers into slack
diamond bay with a clade of 
trumpets why not units tongue
and groove numerology of the
gut-eros not to say it is not
hidden remember the bane of
cunning analog samsara when
we laughed like an asphalt
walrus orchestra wallowing
cell-phones and whitewalls
nailed to the music with
nowhere to go at all

05.02.2011



all the news

gumshoe or scrimshaw kaleidoscope
dancing over the sallow tundra shall
be the calliope law by colloidal Gatling
gun Samothrace Kampuchea which
is to say well-lit knitting table-saws
no more causal walloping the devils
anvil where the rule of law and order
musters paragraphs and paragrabs
paramilitary anklet Kahlua Mahjong
based on the fourteenth stolen minim
wailing magazines and weaving naked
rag dolls as part of the eggnog mucus
partition caucus every bat is bait for
an abacus and an ibis no wonder the
gastrointestinal landmines rebarbative
tornadoes are no longer just in Kansas

05.02.2011





The Luxembourg definition

mad hatters notwithstanding applesauce
triangulated trilateral nunchucks deep in
the khaki night an angel stood oddities
tumbler nullified mulch samovar from the
post office trained to a trellis as ice-lace
wok gamut slinking the pampas dietary
pressures caused by climactic cataclysm
the naysayers inherit and splinter toffee
offal with the gusto of ghosts it is going
to be close barring salvific Icelandic
malaprop armpit nepenthe if it can be
said then it will be said there are no more
alms in the tar pits of nuance no pit bulls
and no pith only a Malthusian armistice
in the gray literature of abortive delay

05.02.2011





interrogation

maladjusted neither ok with the aboriginal
urges to burrow sapient Armageddon nor
agitate against punitive pidgin linguistics
next page a camera in a backpack in or
on Cameroon back to the beginning nor
is the blaring of naval danger gainsaid by
hooligan Antwerp gargantuan hula-hoop
antics Neanderthal gangrene no such gang
of macaroni much less dingbats even less
dynamite paramedical fahrenheit unfit to
inhabit even the lesser of two evils ruin the
gauntlet and lie in their unmade beds not 
much to go on here no but it's all we've got

05.02.2011





oat

it ot at at it ot oat ott
it et ot oat at ut ott
eat ut at ate ut at 
but ate put it ot ut
rut ott rut ott at it et
it it et it ot et ut at
ut it at it et ot ott ut
ott it oat ot ot at it at

05.03.2011





confessions

he said i've been drinking lots of blood
he said don't paint your teeth

05.03.2011





the explorer

cut yak toolshed sap
panda permanently
Panamanian agitate
cycle rug ants Puritan
club cut rake rung at
it out guano inhabitant
annual gangsters skit
bile boiling toolshed
fanged panda sad oat
sod syllabus Sinbad
the bipartisan English
professor swiper no
swipe bookmobile
mirrors Miami and
Myanmar and Mars
and macaroni Marxist 
armies and marbles

05.03.2011




retail

mailbox iterated toothache
once upon a gland stoop
grammatical gangplank
back to the checkout line
to panhandle for a pardon

05.03.2011





a parable

granulated cunning tollbooth
drumming play
the neck is a parade
inside this darkness

05.03.2011





master plan

checkers piano pangs unified
pirate radio insurance daffodil
sailing off to Lilliput not so
much a pagan anxiety as
the mirror of amicable
marksmen mutated
mutilated like keyboard
toboggan nuptials remastered
rigged mastheads manifest
disarming marshmallow mutt
mute mutinies marshaling
linguistic Bible illogic aplomb
miraculous point-blank
death's-head hawkmoth
halloween in Kansas or Hawaii

05.04.2011

poem || Michael Leong

Significant Event that can be Addressed but with Great Effort 

On the published threshold of 

                               corrosive          
                                      configuration,


          portals of quartz are believed
to both host 
and post-date     

the great surficial hazard


                           (    a portal of
                           
                             time-related crossings 

                                                       (       transport along       

              sub-parallel subchannels   ( or

                                          plutonic chutes     
                                  
                                                   of         aerial     intrusion  )    )   )

while abrupt and unstable bodies
           
           had subdivided         
                     the deep-water dome
                  into several hundred
   steep-walled
                domes of
               available isolation.


From a single, lateral perspective –

                  a targeted model is

leaching 
the future,
                             is unfavourably testing
the irregular infrastructure
containing
the numerous.


For the purposes of defining trenched parameters

~       even eroded intersections
would likely bend within 

the depths
of coalescing colluvium

 as an intimate initial
 cut across the 
 boundary of submarine persistence 
 would fracture 
 between sensitive axes of contact. 



                                                              Therefore,

the pipeline from Sections 2.4.2 to 2.4.18 will not be needed,

                       incised as it is by internal condensate,
by a widening watercourse 
                        of linear rebound.


It is believed that
          form
inferred 
from
       interpreted meander

can trigger 
standstill tsunamis,
approximately 690 glaciofluvial difficulties,
and
an alternative avalanche
of
remolded debris;


                                   granular investigations      in     variable weathering

               indicate that

            a seismic migration of 
            sub-vertical static

is due to

              a parallel presence
                                veining the distances ,

                          
     a residual wave       

                                    that has been 
               breaking for years.



[Note: This poem—inspired by Christine Leclerc’s Enpipe Line (http://enpipeline.org/), a poetry collaboration in resistance to “dreams of social and environmental destruction”—draws on words from Volume 3 of the regulatory application that the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project submitted to the National Energy Board in May 2010; a decision is expected by early 2013.  The Northern Gateway Project is a proposal by the Canadian gas and oil shipping company Enbridge to build a multi-billion dollar pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to British Columbia, passing through 80 First Nations territories.  While working through this 918-page document, I limited myself to using the words only found in sentences that contained the word “significant.”] 

poem || Jeff Harrison

Nezahualcoyotl
 
Nezahualcoyotl
and the mule
advanced

mountains

where they
lost savory grief

accidentally,
both their
throats were
among mules

several little speakings
amidst the brays

part time /

blades coat their throats in throat coincidence

/ yet another
fairly remarkable part of
what's under the fifth sun
of the Five Sun Mythos

and they scarcely characters!

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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poems || Jim Leftwich

anxiety

anxiety undulates gumball machines
tongue sand sand 
table tsunami awaits
meticulous tooth iterations
mastodon fuzz addition
maybe an easy song
to sign or urinate
in Himalayan karma language not
so easy to get along
with the parabolic bong magazine
guild pandemic gamelan sap
parmesan magician
angular dawns nationalistic
sobbing toothpicks
and pagan dandruff

04.30.2011




a cautionary tale

ache of blasts or boats
bugs landing soft
fanged elohim management
kayak royal weddings
and nerve gas
a loneliness of bankers
tissue puling video games
and hurling bones
maya kayak
maya tongue bleeding
ladders
how much piano comedy
cave man karma
reptilian fanged llama
American fastened
to the steam engine
and goat pumice bunting
soap paramilitary agitprop
pomegranate tulip-ladders
liberal beef tongue 
boiling bile
toenails trilateral custard
dung beetles crawling moral

04.30.2011





scratch and dent

truly ladle-glue along
royal alloy purviews
gum-lung along the
rangy isthmus too
bang and mug-shot
tooth-fairy to metabolize
along the panhandle
boiling languages
parakeets and hang-
gliding for a dint

05.01.2011





lasso

by god the same is turning glad
detuned and grinning knots
like a leap-frog
sinbad the sailor nibbling milk
shakes mattocks the well-knit
lasso
sing along with the coleslaw tongue
fang the maypole nearly
never say pagination has passed
the point of naked surround-sound

05.01.2011





drone

cavernous since abilities binaural
bilingual saturday turmeric decoy
or ginseng studied dangling sole
tungsten koala bear sunning in
the wedge-saw gala funhouse
ethanol solace brutal still until
satrap retooled nattering magenta
tone poems enchilada militarized
game board musketeers rioting
papyrus at christmas in the naval
shipyard angelic and bilateral
iterations of gunshots and bitternut
from nebraska to baluchistan

05.01.2011





tough

toolshed adenoids margarita frames
naive nativity it townhouses hurling
or says this is not ok in fact it is a
woodshed bungling row houses under
gasoline-tongues collated and market
driven batik materiality germs roiling
sanity kamikaze lament sanitation
gastrointestinal nakedness waylaid
amnesia paratactic for a song how
much such is too much and too bad

05.01.2011





predictions

too bad for the cockroach
and the egg and
the bagatelle and the
bricolage and objectivity
bay of fig-leaf
pickled actualities
the potato and the pomegranate
tandem parachutes assuage

05.01.2011





renewable bling

soap mammal agitated ammo
graveyard gallant gratitude
gnaw ambiguous slab hidden
gainsays paper Hiawatha
waiting for the tiger to sing
clang mandates mandalas
dishonored panopticon attic
annihilates antique imaginal
paratroopers unsung given
Gnawa periscope knives
sidesaddle for a radish
reptile camouflage karaoke
isosceles larynx lapdog
divan livingroom sagittarius
pedagogical triceratops
one can never have enough
bling in ones quarterly report

05.02.2011





six months aint no sentence

periodic kiosk apropos any tutorial
anthropomorphic hindrance to the
alimentary Hindu ether even the
backlit loan shark Masonic guild
of Klondike carpenters angus mud
mad gatekeepers urinary ladder
unitary bladder tract landlords
gubernatorial mung bean mulligans
attract go fuck yourself with forty
years of poetry mugwort Powhatan
punctuate fanged sand with some
same as it ever was my grammar
is not a game of potato you can
do it too no maybe maybe just a
generous goon swamp gambler

05.02.2011





fluxus zen event slap score

pan
panda
pandada
up side the head with a frying panda

goon squad noodle and a speen slip
aisle of spleen Rangoon creeper say

that's not funny yes it is it's pretty
funny no it isn't it's not funny at all
it's pretty funny no it's not i think it's
pretty funny you're a fucking idiot

players nostril hitherto hinterlands
into the Shinto frog-bang tree-frog
orchestra and mating call gamelan
band cut and paste treetops boom
post office kneecaps snot snafu
positively oolong napalm curling
and twisting cultivars oxidation
gongfu bouquet wrap-curled dragon
infusion as NATO so do unto Pluto

05.02.2011





infomercial

not so fast after all Icarus
only the hand he was dealt
traipse trapeze some of the
muddier Baja agitprop
dahlia hilltop sauce clinically
sane but the same karmic
ginsu knives awaiting toenail
iterated toy masochism but
wait there's more not too long
thereafter in a Pangloss gallop
the golf-toga ladder one step
at a time as they say is for
players and players only

05.02.2011

text || marco giovenale

LOStEXT  #01



archery sawtimber bosomed intonate shaving.

homeliness ringworm says anymore indigo, unlucky hocus, lucky soprano, a–

corsetd pigeon, vulcanize blockbuster vagodepressor @
fulgurant showman hacking spartacist unilateral awfulness

& pavlovian background taboret mainly phial villous summary gives sunglow madrona venturer setting motto kerogen babu seizure 
dishearten viking.

strychninism scouting spouse. ectoblast audile forester.
saker. thickheaded µ -

discriminate spottily -
disorder

gonfalonier unionizing munition.

argentiferous,
refuge domestic deflects adjunction bivalve solipsism 
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sclerous confinement. shipworm cyanosed exponent.
series signifying undeviating claviform playback.

clangor of all those plenary endotoxins
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poems || Jim Leftwich

no memory

no memory of this but
once gone ADA
bulk attitudes sonic ray
his seal lurch racket wicker
borne tariffs simplicities
yearly somnambulant
ribald high/low eyebrows
fold and gulch
auto destruct
hive cranberries
demolish talons flickering
pox aggregates destructive
art buds damask bode 
alfalfa fades at dictions 
erotica larynx beams
vast cobra identity

04.28.2011





carrot

no identity of this
seasonal at the door
vascular horizon moons
clear lima beans
dealers will ill and 
wilt bet the latch
no knob no vacuum 
cleaner no beercan 
crushed abraxas sidereal 
yarrow habeas corpus 
aspirational silent 
delta data-hash 
on-ramp hazards
zinnia landlocked 
musk-ox subsemiotic 
streaming axe handles 
magickal quill roses 
as if eyelashes art 
damaged and diminishing 
nectar never hearken 
by the carat

04.28.2011





conspiracies

lukewarm botulism kudos
our rear view window
in the lizard minivan
ice severance libidinal
dictatorial rims
ogre banished microphones
mirroring concrete sulk
manticore nonetheless
nasturtium bilderberg
tiki lights bungler through
no saliva vassalage
of its own

04.28.2011





the laboratory of the unsaid

detoxified buddhist razors
coax zorro intifada
inestimable malice
thermal excalibur
exhumed by hissing soccer
or its next of kin

unassailable xenophobic
cinders exorcise anarchic
vendetta obliteration
redux outside the ancillary
axles there is no such

thing as a vowel clunker
kebab kielbasa laboratory
of the better left unsaid

Israel may level the butane
but hymns to Hezekiah will
never circumvent
the caveats of the meek

04.28.2011




omnipresence sprouts suffering

root canal from the James River
to Jakarta as such belies the
funeral pyre cactus demeanors
inimitable cat-scan interstate
lightbulb and infinite radar
behind the pince-nez of Siddhartha
absconds with a birds-eye view
and is last seen eating
canned agribusiness asparagus
with Absconditus the Elder
at a small cafe
in an undisclosed city
somewhere north of Brussels

04.28.2011






heaven

bulk mailing coloring books uncle
crinkled hats about the devil
not so demented mitochondria
in a bubble a prison a pistol
how about those burning kitchens
the carburetors and the curve balls
the Indians taking on the White Sox
old habits are hard to resurrect
eventuate tastes of data
in the bush of cars young guns
unbalanced by flag decals

04.29.2011





bait

cobbler without kicks
one dozen egg yolks
how far do we have
to go to sew the sun
to the switching yard
it's the same old moldy
darkness if only we had
known meat is always
bait veal dead ears a
marching band 
garrisoned signifiers
queue inconsequential
shoes bloody in the crib

04.29.2011





as soon as

bobbles the toy lute novice
vicissitudes disambiguated
lamp shades yearning data
bent nibblers birthday party
on a yacht how cool is that
birch
colander
picture tube
handkerchief
syntax reinvents itself for
your viewing pleasure
voyeurs in a yellow taxi
imagine anew the binary
pornography of the page
even though
revolve
zero absolute kelvin
muttering like a bird
in a sieve
hatch waste
take it easy

04.29.2011





unauthorized

it's later than you think
what kind of bird is that
so much data
so few deviled eggs
it tooke me yaers
to forget how to spell
yessir

04.29.2011





anew new left

ladder letter latter no
no singing wrist
singing necks gaping position papers
pulp police
political gulp
sinking like a kangaroo on the Bataan peninsula
no more left-wing magick
loosely speaking anger is not a model
sailing off snarling off into the night
by what gulag of tulips
no later than tonight
no latitude and no longing

04.29.2011