from 6 X 6 X 6 || Peter Ganick

seven

contextual memory advocate brochure allies neoprene
kitten shelf nebbish avail zorro anisette
brachoiphile conote envision presume sussed motto
ambergris valdemar plausible babbling struck holding
ainse fabrication element nsaid persist peregrine
stimmungen lesser thisness preen facility groundedness

dotty sine gurgle perpetual numerous placebo
sinstrate vocation lorgnette weatherperson island streetwise
nothingness waking throwaway clustering aisles determine
entity vacuous fens leisuring callisthenic element
anchor selzure pleonastic votary blurs diaphragm
belay metal everlasting dutiful nimbus aggregate

until renames figuring callisthenic valve mottos
blot abrogates denizen accede milligraph suddenly
nicetires felicitous adventure least nothingness avail
nonentity solipsistic avenue egoism toggle stickpin
wampum eclogue naivete smartphone eachness vernal
ptarmigan slight adorable nescience tabula rasa

motile vociferous transient attract transcendent voice
anchorite doodle ingesting daily niter absalom
earnest restitution clientage motion lossless agon
trivet mull qadi voiceover snail fodder glaring
sforzando nothingness waves throughpu datum silence
ascertains felicitous borne anthrax hullabaloo muffle

screwtape inverness opacity module another inertia
apse scrimmage contour selfless angioplasm natter
gullible toon scientism otherwise palatial morass
copain derivative omicron selenium crosshair debut
anima cleft ironic clockface descriptive anomaly
neither wasteland noggin slurry panel seriphim

inculcate mores storm fueling reference slather
apnea vocative muttering laser borrower nomad
gypsum behaviorism bitternut rallying panache dormitory
clubfoot gaggle pretend sitter borderline ampoule
scruple hasp veneer slotted mainframe sizing
blotto abyssal commonsense universal propriety equal

2 poems || John M. Bennett

“Nombre”

sudor risueño sudor del vidrio
estrellado y pusilánime me lamo
el sudor del asfalto brumoso y
sumo el sudor a mi billetero ga
stado mas circular el sudor mili
tante por las calles de Washington
DC por las calles de St. Louis por
las calles de los Ángeles de las
ciudades orondas de hormigas
por el sudor del hambre que
me cobraban los camiones de
Texas hasta Laredo donde se
abre el mundo de mi sudor
rutilante el sudor de los poros
del desierto sudor inmiscible
de la misericordia risible su
dor lactante sudor de una
moneda de 1968 sudor de
Chicago donde vi una cara
muerta hace años de sudor
sudorificante que se acuerda de
los túneles por la sierra sud
or fisgón y fiscal sudor cami
nado por las aceras del DF sin
sudor sin láminas sin toalla y
sin el frío que me deletrea el
nombre




Written in Fog

from my heartburn it’s written from
the collapsing leg on the hill it’s wri
tten it’s written and glistening from
the gristle forgotten on the floor it’s
written in the cloud and leaving the
cloud it’s written and left in a
corner at the bus station downtown
it’s a thumbing of ears what’s writ
ten it’s written from the frog in the
back of my brain it’s written in the
writing was confetti mailed in an
envelope of skin written it’s a crow
ded hand in a bag of seeds it’s written
and wrung it’s barking or written
was written on a flag you wiped
your ass with written from the
brick remembered in a pond it’s
written it’s swallowed it’s anti
acid milky on the bottom of a
glass where it’s written written a
blur rolling to the edge of a table

from 6 X 6 X 6 || Peter Ganick

six

combine synchrony coefficient latte nougat ironic
slight reinvent ersatz otherwise applique mode
aisle aeon flaunt repatriator vessel courageous
milligraph entertain subsume noon maladroit vernal
pirate sforzando enroute mica fluff nefarious
unripe naiad ethos feint graphematic labors

happiness vacancy pertinent clearing listless agonize
meaning roulette invite liaison ultravioet anorexic
sizing engulf parliament limited also remittance
spansule oblique mottos slurry bovine salida
nintendo zephyr novena burrow viewpoint slightly
painter introit vacuous engage remote vascularity

perestroika cell snafu coconut nibble smiling
naissance tentative babble yadda elderhostel niceties
refer curiosity vacuous showplaced midrange hoops
entitlement anneal stile vapid chorale stegosaurus
deleria noster principate vacation listless ingredient
mitten salida rein siting assail formative

sample anguish sanguine allies deterrent calluses
demolish routine simplicity borrow dependency nsaid
novena removal snailpace neither salut valise
persist enticement troubadours evidence plieade natty
steam engulf picturesque noun gorilla tamperproof
animate vouchsafe client aegean broken stipulate

empyrean cleft hammerklavier snail parrot slight
nothingness availed nugget sturm und dragnet
guillotine cairn plasticene coeli paratrooper calendar
stymie acidfree nouns zone rhizome foreignness
returnable stabilize motto normal evidencing lorry
plasticene dalliance anothered writ neither witness

violet contrast evident alchemy nominal entente
replicate meteoric slate funicula remit azure
aloha somatic vertigo polity vacuous relapse goers
dowse reinter sassing risotto euphrates delimits
noggin slightly entirety anomalous deterrent asana
fiduciary weevil donate migratesd elliptic vanishes

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POMEcurious

curious); couple where’t

met: sound ch eck lookiet

lastice anty with sens placa

dorppin fringe look; saidown

plant slicket mated de ithur

own korty) doubleit noble


functick as); ture emperfull ya

procrypt pomething winked whil

osed malltimation wholention’t

never somethin) kin horesewink

sting probottle enormore renced

pomes thenside interemed blonte

loosely fragrant bown dawl court to

counting handserves protempor gon)

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Slips easily from view, conscious eye vee, trembling near
the source, deciding (the decision) to remove the sole
rebuke of silence. Would a pond amount to sleeves one
troubles in and out of? See vibrato in the foliage.
See bronze elaborate on autumn. See an altruistic garment
slide from hollow. Are dreams rationally pure, designed
to habit-form, inhabit, or amount to inhibition? Any
triumph offers plush recidivist thumb drive a location
to revive the pomp and giddyness. The get-up, the
commotion one imbibes, then falsifies to yield results.
A lonely winter slow dance comes to mean there was a
softer way to live along the path. The path, synonymous
with lifetime as we know. A pitch, thought pure, a
highlight.

Tremolo misplaced along a grace note, young composer,
fully formed

Sheila E. Murphy

3 poems || John Pursch

Prentian Frien


Weir lockin ein stranckian plexial moun,
zeramitous kentibuli oxial trone,
or unto plein squidgian maphen baremit,
parooned bemint crein phloady sment of glawet,
paren de zeiner maleinem canout.

Hiltage and wordian angula treiniam
hodgen dein oathies perfactian adow,
und oliate ebviant oustle caniemitle
whoogle drast etchle’s enrupsier spreen.

Oncircle ous andicram preador ferama tomp,
execrian oodger of diria deet;
epausin or croaziat wenbelirjam orat,
plen whougen te samien, levelie moncti,
con ardle and prentian frien.





Yeti Collusion


Hordes of automatic wrestling darts pin cuticle clans galore into aching, woven, dermal octagons of bellowing blister packs, flooding card clippers with crimson cold cuts, clamoring for town signals and spilt skies. Venus appears above a courtroom, housing ateliers and floozy chimes, springing lexicon blinders on lawn bowlers, mending social quartz pretenders, fending off loose trumpet ears, muted by cummerbunds and oboe jelly. Reading bouts beset a gaggle of whale planners, ribbing a Quonset hut’s malarial denizens with shingled statistics and glued gantry gills gone elastic. Who can extol the lost smell of a faint whistle, stale and perilous in its chosen lapse of microbial wealth? Only the lambent musculature’s cruising hope, canned in mixed proteins, aimlessly chugging for shore. Bugs tote a newborn rhino, grappling with twice our oozing breath, hobbling through sheets of sleety sense machinery, quipping at dockets of tensions, inspiration be spawned. Clam trinkets inflame a deep-sea tourniquet, stashing three potable ingots of theoretical onsets, in lieu of portaging yeti collusion.




Mericost Plast Eberwein


Compagnotol impernoble quentifogle,
impandible fenuchian moontif hodge,
orchantian ifgle und spen monfantich oriond,
per fritch enbibular flidger hof dein enterule.

Ir hemin oodgle arct oomian efter mongal,
seizen diun crenular whooj int ben,
ventimular orchal tibonf.

Arso munian penchuf tirwhon,
dej oogan arn semintil, plen arbian munt,
fend zein quon moodiat spuit,
flen mindal in pluthage goweind;
son meirntal bilamian, crentobidar miln
odj hemerin pilg gorein.

Crimpon itchen feen edj hormelar reinof,
pars uminum enchent ind zemulin wilch,
kendomin ig grisket and phletch of de bilken pri,
whoud rumen end monitof croudl porteen.

Ent trempin tsein mericost plast erberwien.

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POMEseniortrack

plus senior track: bubbles

practised butter confesses

lowering mums configure

any tray pales borders inter

vening genetics culprits noses



unwilling streets flip above1

sheer jest diverse hardware

moth fasts inside ka exclusives

quantumouthlines meals transfix



neath the bare footnote rockets

or arc gasoline any wind in nastiest

cosmology diverting defunct stare



brushes symbol strip mall exposure

driving bone zooms past under arms



next to worry relaxes liquid duplicates

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Yours is a convivial restraint, apart from plaudits. Cortical
rendezvous held in parentheses, as if the work were nothing
beyond covert bracelets. Norms. A variance of kilt. The
window near the wind. Predicate norm. In fact, unfastened.
Fast asleep. You show your loyalty by chiming in. You show
your sheepliness by corresponding. I won't purchase your
endorsements of inclement votive warmth. Abundantly abuelas
finger flutes. They ploy their way to melody until harmonics
temptingly conform to rules of clash. One floats from home
front easily, until one flat-out leaves the place. You underage
your way to tap-shod wrinkle-dom, toward days and nights
and severance. The Pleiades invoke their own rhymes while
we weather staunch lit storms. The view perfects itself,
apart from eyelight set to form.

Shade trees, acorns, mash upon the yard, cleats, tennis
shoes, minced freedom

Sheila E. Murphy

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

If affection is a formula, the white curve caps
endorphins as one leaves them quietly at play.
Qui es in coelis transcends a remark. The sky
is starting to be full. Our lives mirandize all
the pattern that precedes a move definitive. Day
meanders into nightfall. While you wait once
meant hurried work unseen until a sudden
satisfaction. Now we wheel ourselves toward
picturesque new madras in the background of a pack.
The only institution we remember offers a rejoinder.
I just learned she performs transduction. Furnishing
incentive to encompass bee spheres of delight.
Perfume is how we are again. The leisure between
talk time and repair of what surrounds us. One
of these days we will outlive our dreams.

Kismet as a polished dream, the vast field energized
by an impromtu kiss

Sheila E. Murphy

from 6 X 6 X 6 || Peter Ganick

five

blanket serious evince aggregate molten vivacious
numerous energy flamboyant cactus reptile cairn
palette virgule preamble clipper shradda inroad
connote rawhide hockey snicker interpret neither
acceleration borealis douanier shed rummage anode
flash diode morass clef ruffian netting

cola engulf premature inventor silencing apperception
migratory serration elliptic adventure old harpoon
milehigh isness wavering siddhartha scare tactility
vanish orpheus delaying skiers whoever intolerance
thosethem improbable sebaceous frame grammar sole
roulette saguna brillo finessing also cacophony

jitney illbient amicably nothing least rhodium
planet surrogate inferring attic illegitimate glower
cinnamon listless agon flash nominal repeaters
engineer lasix blooded integer lunge snark
bleat holding silo abrogate borrower silence
syllogism bluette prejudge naming structure goner

collapsing either sortileges morrow thanthere feckless
improbable ousia threshold entitle naivete serialize
comparable tortola mistral ingredients also borealis
armrest vocalize emplot gargoyle motto least
affirm eitherwise notify anneal distribution thethen
signatory abridge impulsion crash accordion beluga

nexus travail belligerent commute also thereas bloat
curmudgeon alimentary banal fictive amplitude excess
nitpick averse repetition lasix velveeta mirage
collective illusion permafrost ghost implexy corespond
either livery armistice noetic academe norm
trot wilderness plague narcissus elementary stylism

typhoon sturdy armor cell switching erewhon roost
anneal bivouac turnaround synchronize preen beret
teeth virgilian primrose whichever wait interloper
caveat norm stipulate license dendrite also
manicurist avenir signal contour selector bailiffs
findings dragnet infiltrate tectonic arena initialize

2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POME ?’s coccupy

Should the executive stickout an automoobile?

Or elephant under load system instruct a target?

Does boring throughout collapse inside brown?

Purchase? or does kin elephant target instruction?

Do arithmetic scanners consent to smell contrasts?



Does ‘dramatic electorate’ spell religion capitalist bursts?

Do the skeletons across decay forecasting rage recover?

How does nextext significant bone laugh a sworn substance?

When does radar prosecute opposite pencils an aged pump?

Buy? Do hinda bananas leap the infallible sugar aster sleep fort?

Do grouped crackers view state exceptions throwing errors inner?



Fine corpse results in any scope\

Infinity breeds insanity feral fear\

Lacking loss the junction closes fast\

Poarto mighty complex seen abroad\

Star horizontal to folks crowding projects\

Brown bores throughout collapses inside too\

Machines hunt underneath eyepullied moontops\


Welcome now pass the messy beauty thoroughfare\\\




POME Lo splivers

Lo splivers ars e whel bleu gofing

leckmun sof gas ang howe hat errif

broed dimhat legan miver damosto

fards alerd b roarean proppi wasti



iout storcered rat rompas son ming


rung ath ut swathaver weelard nunce

daivan tearea mit yutrag at prestiepum

wer eptier emp ethe tering moght henan

mata dei whenre shi nif haen seckepaust

mombastchim steralingluingly henettood


son ming rat rompas e whel bleu proppi

3 poems || John Pursch

Expiration Dates


Cantering contusion chips, baked below sea level, seamy in their frayed imaginings, cartwheel for ductile semblances of horn jitters, caressing cabbies at dusk, filling slushy side streets with a mockery of bowling bile blues. Graded gutters contaminate clue machine ejecta, filing for costly unguent storms in whirling demon feathers, paralyzing avian vendors with pleasant android rooming house projections, laden with holographic quandary kits. Rhomboidal organisms flee the station, whistle blowers in tow, anxious to overhaul the homeostatic, rheumy-eyed parishioner’s emergency inseam mobile. Braking for geese, immigration taxis pay for crosstown delusions, imbibing castor oil at gallons per torn nylon hat trick, fishing hockey stars from Ice Capades turnstiles. Buildings crumble at the mere sight of our childhood sweetheart’s leggy extrusion; subway cars careen through concert halls; ships undock and drift into wharves, crushing our pilloried piles. Heads of state resign and flee, only to be decorticated at the toll booths, given teething rings, and force-fed billowing cans of obesity. Syrupy soup gluts the command line, sugars the salted city limits, imbues the prosaic retraction of six o’clock drama, and slams all sameness into original sin, pressing sacrilege to new depths, charging creditors and prosecutors to the brink’s lonely, bituminous outboard crease, demanding belief from every house pet, expiration dates be damned.





Rewrite


Dusted by this catatonia, elements of the uprising disembark the time tunnel, eclipsing scrambled possibility generators, outracing any supercomputer’s predictive fence, predating all events, collapsing the world into boredom, occluding all known windows, faxing the future to all parallel pasts, rewriting every logged keystroke with simian gibberish, paradoxically preventing global warming, spontaneously cramming the skies with flying chairs, teleported kittens, and reincarnated giraffes. Cleanup crews materialize from recycled debris, fly into closets, and spackle every darkened corner with laminar nutrients, seeding generational resurgence with fluctuating vacuum salesmen near you. Intermittent gas clouds emerge, cascading into pervasive, germinal enclosures, releasing just the wrong combination of malformed collusion and recombinant mumbo jumbo, spawning hideously acceptable expansion coefficients, resulting in racehorse subtleties, jawline machismo, banking without turning, regulated breathing, gill salutes, temptress cheese, enzyme retraction, limping centipedes, wound glue, electronic wood, choleric cherubs, hallowed harlots crowding out altar boys, sacred sacroiliac sarcophagi, spaghettini skeleton keys, public key transparency, the abolition of private propriety, cats scratching at doors to eternity, reflux fission, fused starlets, refuse recollectors, pleasure’s ominous spread, omnipresent lust, satisfaction’s final guarantee…





Embtial, Spontior Croot


Arumena plenterfeil, a chobbler of nieth,
engamaline frontermun, entombling chort,
ackuvian hapecoat, corregian smoor,
arshimle and porticene,
ontumial chesterhock tremp.

O sulician horrier! O inchembile durise!
En furengient octobular wronk in jemile malize!

Toog a gramble of whexerman phrank,
a gippontie clemt jamure;
orch ein spoogley turmen taphleek,
peramel and gleeter pajore.

In spemil, on crabble, of tenter and cheener daloop;
if whooden carample or jarion eart,
er gaminal pheat con parunial, embtial, spontior croot.

poem || John M. Bennett

Blow Away

the crusted wind I covered with
eyesight the wind and tooth
lost in the bottom drawer there
was a wind I nailed to a board
in the splintered garage the wind
of numbers fogged in my pocket I
shaved the wind from my trembling
coat dogged the wind with my
tongue gagged and soaked with
wind your glasses retained my
sandwich hollowed with wind and
my undershirt a coughing towel of
wind I cornered in the loot
hidden in my closet the dribbling
wind caressing my face I shoveled
my ashes behind the wind and
twisted around to the front of
my wind a moon sunk in a bucket I
cradled a wind in a darkened street
in St. Louis 1961 the wind was
a throat I strangled and opened
was a sea its lunging mountains
where I was the wind
in 1948 I was a ship a small grey
wall quaking and clanging
in the circular wind

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POME
Insect ile  petunias        bandeyes
rasher  goldaxes  glowth  pausets
 
dim pool mu bing blinktrans  late
coastmice les fleurs  hung   huge
heavy   steady:  morning  twi light
 
undrstoo droop roof drip: shockfor
t’um landscap mirror           shadow
incernireachil  sup pius day  undose
phemooforth eaposes  recteth bab
ernes serv  late opening   last dunce
 
landkustre feetmolving waytatay urn
gettingdevershorn blithings forche  a
rost songry pirit ter ningsent vominet
vominee vominus:  burnend   part one
 
horizon relay emaciated laughskin: now
 

3 poems || Felino A. Soriano

 
Old Homes 1
 
 
Lavender)coruscated light(mischief
                                                                        wanders
denying shadow-whole rhythms          excavated                    wonders
                                                                                    the
exterior divides:
 
rehabilitated (unyet) walls of opened desire
                                    for
                        angling flies’ roaming artistry and
woven wind’s anecdotal freedom amid
abandoned concepts of aggregated
 
                                                animation. 
 
 
Old Homes 2
 
 
 
Worn bench
            seatless, corporeal fascination:                        the bodied warmth coalesced
                                    elsewhere motivation               ambulation
fondness.  Porch
                                                e
                                                  n
                                                   c
                                                  l
                                                o
                                                s
                                               e
                                              d           
                        waist of elongated emaciation
‘round chair’s integrated warping
                                                            and enunciated dilemma.  Many
supine documents of prior fulcrums
            opened
renovation                   displaying hand and coordinated movements.  References rotate
layer logos unwinding mutations
 
muted language etched into antiquated variances of a family’s
eloping methods of death’s ornamental bequeathing. 
 
 
Old Homes 3
 
 
 
                        Whimsy of
solid foundation, splayed attention character
quality example enthusiast the builder
                                                                        collocating
eyes|frequency
            interested design          porch of unbalanced favor thus
enveloping meander of a child’s deliberate
 
facilitating leap.
 
                                                Off (slanted, weighted, numerical imbed)
                                    roams such
slender
 
facets
 
forgoing
 
radial maneuvers of Sunday affirmations. 
 

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

In a minute, in the village, in the way, along the weather, temple fit-out of the wind line,
feathers twirl dry haste. Veil falls from sky. Exceedingly, the instant relays
cleansed miniature mind plots. A curious appearing window, not quite square.
Leisure of hereby looking-in. Rubbed stateroom entry vowel tones. A vibrato. How we
wait for sustenance, thus blended, in contentment. Tray left home, to house a plenary
retreat. Some stain, some winter from the sentence left to say a better remnant. One way
of fingering an effete note, reading hold signs. A long poem rendered via voice alone.
Piece played within the space. A fraction of the tempo laid to rest, best practice.
Sample size endowed with scripts held blond to rights, margin of fear, margin of say-so,
blended in arrears, a modicum of stasis. Vows and fate and semblances. The reins let go
into a village, gainshare, housing, window. Forenoon, called a little fate. Enriching sun in
meadow.

Freight drawn across, a fraction of the moon upon a time line, notes along the snow

Sheila E. Murphy