poems || John M. Bennett

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poems || Felino A. Soriano

Verified Renditions 16

 

 

 

Blend of broken silence.  Whom acknowledges?  Rhythm of all, incomplete

                        thus

rabid thirst requires intellectual halt toward emotional conniptions, ceased.

 

                                                                                    Vagrant

                                                            delinquents

                        vocalize

spicy hate of non-home existential banter                                           with

posited momentum excusing such excavated content.  

 

 

Whom among the broken noon expands required diligence against focal

diagrams, paradigm-rust expands into glazed palm of human intuition—

 

 

Verified Renditions 17

 

 

 

Quiet in urn’s

ash rewaking surrogate emotion.  To the

death of arid cheek, mimic of silent

syllables you become the them

unmoving.

 

 

Verified Renditions 18

 

 

 

He awaits rise of realized physicality.  Body

substantiates eld and ambulates

within cultural spectrum of generational

admonishers.  Hat as halo becomes leaning

consolation, lending while holding

prior fluctuation of guile within

related premiere delegating process. 

 

 

Verified Renditions 19

 

 

 

You remember grief resembled a stranded

silver strand

 

                                    hair of a Thursday’s horizontal brush

dying

among its second decision                   brunette/gray

 

attached/separated inhabiting time

with

            spatial sameness as

hands intertwining against a walk’s beach-long distance and

moon’s strongest palm opening atop waves’ elongated entrance.

 

 

Verified Renditions 20

 

 

 

Clear this clarity of opened

window                        allowing frequent voice of vibrating fibrils

                                    cursive flow into

room of my shelved existential prose and analytical posture

delineated poetry from advantageous jazz.  Curtain

unused, thus wrinkled in an age of improper

engagement; the worn of attenuate orange

                                    bends at lowest joint

                                    collecting ants and perhaps the antiquity of

                                    long-ago steps I relayed to walk the parallel

                                    alley to ignite 10:00 a.m.’s light

            creating

multilayered language of octagonal angles

drawing vernacular across carpet of previous

            luster. 

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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2 poems || Raymond Farr

Drama Is the Jeopardy Tank, the Moon Leaning

The zoo, & who’re the links
If quasi-banal, the concept is door

The drama is the jeopardy tank, the moon leaning
Sputtering goulash & sap

All over the SPAM-mice, the double X equals
Non events, the tour is a miser

Ancients asking modem, opinion of
Modernity-shoes, a lacquer

De-iced by the flow, apposite is day
Seems apparent over sight, crayon de la Louvre

Particular window, Cajun Quonset hut
Escapee, the real marauding computer screen

Fix, that eternal sky light, bozo
Better off, delta

I believe I have honey to discern, a hive of I did
Coaster, roller, uphill, in vent with Abbott

Inside the abattoir, the priest is internal
A menace, a calling all cars, the cell phone a U-verse

Simple cross genre, tutu the ice
But a canticle, of reddened soul patches

Eyes on the wood work, gloomy as
Fedora, the real contempt of, not phooey as policy

Full screen, file type, art-in-a-box
The Playboy overlay, that harmony demands

Come in & kibbutz
Or trace my ubiquity


Not Variable Speed, They Were Edges

Cut glass, Dominique is the salty
Craving Cream Soda Ricky, the purple of PDFs

The once purple neck of
Conniving, a battle tool,

The moment I dose I PDF
Banter with kiwi, the storm is the calculus

In cross hairs, the heir
Wobbles in hindsight, a tuba

Is a parent, some shining
Some soma coaxial, as tinny

Before they were bridges, they were edges
Something like bread, not variable speed

We savor the distance between docents
The samovar keys, an ache in the ifs

A fish hag of heaping, atoms askew
& a look, as we swim

We hop a long Firth St.
Many happy, Mars just tense, but there

poem || John M. Bennett

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poem || David Jalajel

negotiating

prepaid celebrity recessions augment
leveraging bleak table settings stealing
enmingled through associates defreeze
moneys unshelving wines break sure and pour
for anyone in beveled cold this urgent
not only fakes it sellable but craves
indeed disparages restraining fervent
mobile communications stir up cautious
unmoving sessions for dispassionate
drying spirits drivel senescent
wickedness distraught inducements splash
into calling times and ring tones haggle
slowly dining posing in their seats
polite for one dear secondary trump

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

I never knew the history of my teacher. I saw only the part I heard, his muscular hands
for which the instrument remained a small and simple thing. My thinness, partial
intellect, my formulating psyche. Felt my sight-reading lift away, note by note. No tones
sprung from my soul. The more code I lost, the more angry he became. For him,
performance was a tiny shred of evidence, compared to his creation of the instruments.
When asked about mechanics of rote cleaning, he responded, "Wear it out playing it."
Too much thought blunted the symbolic gestures meant to turn into relaxed inflection.
To be safe, I started to hear nothing, feel nothing, resist the next thing scheduled to occur.
I held the keys, my breath, I looked into the inner case where silver lived.
I had boots for outside slush. I felt my talent fall away. People heard my flute replace
a self, perhaps suspected that I loved identity that they could know and feel
from windows that I wored like Kevlar clothing in broad daylight.

Vibration shapes, the shapeless afternoon, warm snow gone gray beneath half light


Sheila E. Murphy

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