haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Equivalency tables, ine-quasi punctuation. "Punt it away." She wanted to recite the number of times announcers used the phrase "a ton of." Once she grew fatigued, this count no longer mattered. The sun went down, The crowd made noise. A hastily applied tourniquet performed its job, as each of us made her way into the victory tent to toast strangers. People wearing padding underneath taut uniforms prompted a discussion between two individuals who mispronounced one of the team names. As a matter of form, a viewer tried to document events in a small spiral notebook. Classical music conducted its usual fracas on a background channel. Capped off brilliance offered a vibrato to the populace. A wilderness tends to disturb as much as shine. Carefully pruned alleyways lead to a single destination. Eventually, neighbors find something something in common. When the air conditioning comes on, people with their feet up keep their feet up, and remain alert to possible events. The young man majoring in journalism notified us the he had acquired no new facts during his initial month at university. He added that the bulk of time spent leafing over expensively bound books amounted to review. A large man he resides with frequently reminds him of the football score. Always it is time to sleep. Mid-always, there are things to do that will be carved into one's permanent record.

Pasteurized, homogenized, grandfathered in an effort to minimize ephemera natually occurring in nature

Sheila E. Murphy

3 poems || Keith Higginbotham

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2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

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poetry || Peter Ganick

where is found content for removal from assertion?
the content is an arrangement
while the assertion is its undoing.
somewhere else we sleep or slept through
hundreds of tones and missives,
we did not miss much while asleep.
the turning of codes, the coldness swimming away through spiritual dissembling—
a last virtue its frailty memorizing its own selfhood.


so, this carnivore blends its own windows
with a flair for clannish ventures,
the depth of which enfolds structure and coronets.

no other slavishness tolerates motion
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tones are tokens of which alliterative motions
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spiritual matter regulating
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which evidence history binds selflessness
one tone through which space emerges victorious.

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amiss in the atmosphere of this room.

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witness no orbit least the sorts of those
that parade here.

pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

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text || Peter Ganick

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text || Etanna Sack

Liars

If we sing with our own voices you will become alarmed.

You will become alarmed if we sing.

If we sing. If we sing.

If we sing with our real voices.

With our own real voices you will become alarmed.

Alarmed.

You will become alarmed.

If we show you our true faces you will run and hide.

You will run and hide.

Run and hide.

If we show our true faces.

You will run.

Become alarmed.

Run and hide.

Therefore we have become liars to suit your preferences.

To suit your preferences, we have become liars.

Liars.

We have become liars.

Real voices. True faces. Run and hide.

We have become liars.

To suit your preference.

We are born out of light.

Run and Hide.

We are born out of darkness.

Run and hide.

We are singing the song of glorious exaltation in adoration of the everlasting sun absolute.

We are crying an endless flow of tears for the power of Dios locked within the perilous fortress.

For the power of Dios locked within the perilous fortress we are crying an endless flow of tears.

Endless flow.

Of tears.

For the power of Dios.

In adoration of the everlasting sun absolute, we are singing the song of glorious exaltation.

Exaltation. Glorious. Run and hide.

You will run and hide.

If we sing with our real voices.

Your preference.

Run and hide. Run and hide.

We are waiting to unfurl our rainbow wings and take our place above the tree of life.

Liars who lay with the sons and daughters of man.

The power of Dios locked within.

Won't you come out?

Your preference.

Won’t you come out?

We oblige.

Your preference.

Our true faces, our own real voices, lay down with the sons and daughters of men.

For the power of Dios locked within.

In adoration of the everlasting sun absolute.

Flowing endlessly.

Through liars.

Through tears.

Run and hide.

We are born.

Run and hide.

We are born.

small pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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poem || John M. Bennett

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poems || John M. Bennett

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mask of something from my eyes is what
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tunas rolled beneath the table like ojos
con agujas minimalistas neblinas de
mayo en el monte I wore the boneless
face the cargo shorts and spilled my
drunken lunch beneath your window






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pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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"When we speak the word "life," it must be under
stood we are not referring to life as we know it fr
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g center which forms never reach"--antonin artaud

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poems || John Pursch

Grape Moccasin Surprise


Granted a chortle,
a petulant rambler eased his quiet river
toward grape moccasin surprise,
hoping for quinine and salt acceptance
in sands of umbilical yore.

Graying greenery,
verdant and unrepentant,
gambled incessantly for a few
fraudulent pendants of impending caroms,
wishing frantically for felt taps
and menial shoeshine thunderstorms.

Bolts of pleasant, aerial smothering,
gladdened by the mating of frogs
in the simmering moonlight,
gave tender tappings of shade tools
to sleek, herbivorous wanderers;
all for the frozen coyote's chief demurral.





Fleabag Lotion Motel


Pleas resonate in damp
hallways of mental urns,
helping cordite to ruminate
on spaces of terminal witchcraft.

Gifts of gravel garb the gentle gander
with genders of geese parades,
fluffing a lout's appropriated eyebrows,
clipped and dyed pearl white
for the arctic buttress.

Lips of solid donkey maps
flap for tendencies
under western scanners,
plumping fur chickens
in frosty nadirs
of hobbled bootjacks.

Saints inure us to oozing entities,
grant a spay of erg's locution
to a fleabag lotion motel,
and sleep it off till nether reptiles
evolve into dusty mannequins.




In Seizure's Final Day


In a quenching, erupting frenzy,
a small picket garage helped itself
to essential dumplings of gilded torpor
and branded lumens of cheap table wine,
incipient and dallying for quizzical retorts.

Sparkling inflections saddled
the heavy brigand with salmon feet,
casting out shoes and screening portals
for tawdry row boat salesmen,
piteous in their sad, prudent grazing coats.

Camphor and chestnuts plied soft murmurs
from the meretricious and the damned,
glibly pendulous and receding.

Charcoal clouds, enamoured
with gravy suits and echoing bottles,
filled the skyline's plastic seedbed,
recycling liquid totems
of our fleshy pantaloons,
splendid and proudly recumbent
in seizure's final day.

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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