text || Peter Ganick

from retention coefficient

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Start with the elimination of words that weigh what landfill weighs: unburden selves 
you did not know that you had in you. Trade present tense for depth. Perceive 
layers as a way through an accumulated sadness. No one, ever, functions as
a panacea flavoring your every inadvertent error. Earned runs turn out average,
right? Focus on mistakes as maps that lead to accidental perfection. Loneliness
becomes the sequel to compulsive repair. Once everything is fixed, there's just 
you sitting there, watching everything perform. If you've been taught to occupy
the present tense, you know there's no investment in being accurate. Or wrong.
You're there, a part of anything that happens without filling the vessel of five 
or more senses that come along. If language is a given, offer it to someone 
unlikely to (ab)use it.

Eaves trough leaking holy water, clouds the color frost

Sheila E. Murphy

poem || Jeff Harrison

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with landscape:

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a nickel glance,
swimmer, for
that ivory piece

and words
and floors
to the sands

poems || John M. Bennett

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text || Matt Margo

from When Empurpled

just think to imagine your child laughing and afraid he does not feel that his fear is permanent think about it you yes you the human community I do not cluster sentiments of steel I am just like my father Owen I know who murdered him with a javelin of God to protect you pleased his soul ridded it of the fears returned knowing when to call them to God and O God how she laughed and told the show to go on meaning that she was grabbing the one mythical happening oh how that beauty did laugh kissing in me believing in God though I was close to the old depictions of the okapi of Orizaba bless and thank you her guardian a sinner counting on you journeying into Melaka just a dear servant unaware counting on you journeying into Melaka I am your calling by night and by daylight or at least so says you who ever closer to Shobra courted me arm in arm and almost to the bone my bones which were courted by the instrumental stylings of Ghosts and Vodka and by vodka endlessly poured until it was coming to me walking scrambling God revolting harking the tyranny of the powers that be and rapidly rescuing your victory and protecting you from those who seek to have you dead I take refuge bat at hand and ask you O God my hearer you mighty man near my homeland oh my thy might and thy power

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text || John Crouse

from SINGALONGS
 
 
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Manuscripts spirits deliberates risky heaves commotions prehistoric,

texts || Noel Canlas

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Calluses pressed strings into music. As prayer to honor color and
geometry brought by this teacher lifted now beyond simplicities. 
Each student in present tense absorbed the cello tone. Juice glasses 
were handed round; a tiny group just stood, transfixed, hearing the 
deliberate line of melody be with the body for a while. As all repealed 
a likely speech. 

Green and yellow Palo Verde trees, smooth-skinned, flowers from 
the cacti all around


Sheila E. Murphy

text || Peter Ganick

from It's Only Po-e-try and I Like It

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aruba 
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apothegm 
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laughter in accord to 
civilian embarrassment 

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the afflictive kitsch
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language 
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reiki sled 
an activation el dorado émigrés. 

oceans later, 

poems || Jim Leftwich

from six months aint no sentence

theme

too toolshed to dull ladder
dung-island
singing tools latter ladder

05.16.2011



variation

stomach at agility trumpets
lake of oblong well-lit
one day the fanged gang
gullible hooligan
gasp lull again
rang angry tongue colander
same magical game of kayak

05.16.2011



theme

sinuous Abulafia cinch binary kabbalah
since sinusoid kayak ash bilateral as
Nashville gargantuan hull-gland looter
muddles shingles mangles less seldom
at the mayor of bees

05.16.2011



variation

flag-anger tool-ladle Dallas
to dung-ladder bang at Baghdad
closure unhurried rib-cage haggler
bile-clang and pangs of butter
pangs of gangplank butler island swill

05.16.2011



theme

paymaster masked maladapted pulpit
samovar mugwort pit-gate tool and dada
hillocks hangar islands sanctuary
gathering by the fan for gull-soup mulligan
ganglia no island is an outlet for its enter
angels neanderthal tulips ladder-dung and
paginated kangaroo kaboom
no cataclysm and no raccoon

05.16.2011



variation

islands singing babies kayak
yacht at tulip-ladder
dung-island singing kitchen knives
well-lit mailman cataclysm
past mammals soluble agitate
grits guitar and gambles tangerine

05.16.2011



theme

islands singing gambits map
synaptic gong fig-light hogs
satiate sabbath Baghdad
ginger glaring islands singing
gambits nose-sign alibi
binary kayak seance
map of the Pan-American past
fragile agitators tandem spasm

05.16.2011



variation

kayak languages angel tongues
through collated tunnels
soaked in paginated soul
apropos the positivist stun-gun
no island pangs Bees of Jesus
sensorium nails and toes

05.16.2011



theme

snow voices environments
fog
soggy frogs and turd

05.17.2011



variation

awe while thirst is
abundant boundaries

05.17.2011

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Con Brio

Conceptual experience instills orgiastic tremolo no matter what.
The emblem of a blouse, some flagpole evidence, an inadvertent weather.
Who says blossoms lead a full life? All of the arithmetic functions are 
performed, not necessarily pro forma. A story brings its tantrum to 
these premises, and we decide, both consciously and its inverse, 
to be affected. Our economy does not deserve the plural possessive 
pronoun. The latitude someone provides is less intriguing than 
the reason for release. Timetables need to be let go. Skin breathes, 
ideas are revamped by creed and craving. Will you run away (or for)? 
Who's to say the pockets will continue to be deep? Alliances mean
pretty parked ensembles of the witty charm. Alignment seems reduction 
of the same old music stands. The rests within which one has dwelt 
and can't recall. The divots and the divans and the near-miss of 
a projected harmony.

Staccato quirks, the near miss of in(ter)vention, silos lying in the field

Sheila E. Murphy

poem || Bobbi Lurie

anything you say calls up                         
its opposite
mazes contradictions
those who didn't know who read superficially
outlaw appears wild-man hurling imprecations at universe
martyred in process
committed to friends
beatific poetry
warrior against repression &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&conformity
curses find parallels Book of Job
Psalms
quietist scribe
Tantric Bible
urgency to read
(poetry)
coffee houses passers-by on street whether they wanted to listen or not
wise-ass looking for trouble
grandiose claims
that neither he nor anyone else had anything to say worth hearing
parapatetic monk
grimly following weird inescapable Dharma

poems || John M. Bennett

 
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