3 texts || John Pursch

Queequeg


Helluva jump she made, tabular in its ebony wheelhouse blues, springing to basement allies and bobbing Scotch loadies, mouthing semi-sweet noodles to a mottled crowd. Large events, spun with oxen toward critical foals and cellular flare guns, emit a heavy vivid snarl at pasty bygone motorcars, scenting the cool skyline with cash. Whoever kneels before a sceptered balustrade shall wield donut mangers for hefty centuries, bagged in golden heat. Crenellated doormats lease arterial buttons to flow models, grappling for a frozen armchair’s whimsical ottoman. Empirical deference pins the trusty gasoline can to lipid demolition squads, handing over broken frescoes to manatees on parade. Queequeg knows internal routing bliss, deeply fraught with bluesy, holistic shavings of totem wheezes and lineage turrets. Spun to grazing divisors, envisioned rumors simplify a woozy chamber pot into clucking gravy, pent down and chattering brazen disregard for the pawn.





Gouda Ghirl


Argaton das aturaxy,
plent von uber ket
unscratchen die wailentie
moutard caramer tebild.

Metzen nought outen alonie
et extermon anomie extronium etherbox,
bocce bochtonial uxiuxi tournable ket
souper flon choudle.

Gouda ghirl, she wristwhockles
mein spansular, spurtling ouch
a klean hisprockie jammy top porty spooner.

Oox, she knobbles wethine brestodem,
prawnsy lech a fusin cumbermaid’s
artenial aspurtence beehoulder,
hemercholdin te yer rectup
shinnblone makerfelt.

Nebbamint ollyoll drat storielineal montrilash;
wie habbadabba muchomastie prexoglassy
tournicatchy phloatin phrasie
quattro-hazen multicoulin
heteraxim scroodle.

Dost yeye splay schoonle droolam whoople,
einer bleatch from ze lebens rheumy keep?





Mementos


And so we flow, a thundering bustle of germinal, rendering mice; another enactment of conscious concision, in teeming and baffling bevies of bronzed bathing bodies and senses enraptured with wrestlers and juggling swords; with fertile encumbrances, childhood elites, and paramours dripping in gold. We, who are we, to think that we think, to hold a belief or ten million at once, to stagger and blather and claim to know anything, denying our role in the sure desecration of everything one might conserve, to recklessly gamble and fight… Rubles spent on nested geese and dollhouse wrenches, stained with ivory carrots and moot, vestigial ramparts, hover breathless and secure in the Kremlin’s sallow courtyard, shedding plastic holograms of famous facial tics. Autonomic intestines motivate a billion fumbling fingers to clean salty feet with larded, philanthropic gestures, dilating potted poultice pourers, flipping clarinet rompers in a drastically prosaic whiff of puerile recompense. Submarines itch each oven’s scabrous locomotive, heading off a station chief’s cryptographic inkling, dumping barrels of boy baubles into the Bering Sea. Augurs wheedle for safety prawns, shimmying up a molting sparrow’s lost leggings, trampling a tornado’s tenebrous tourniquet at dawn. Neophytes enable their otter’s juiced mentors, inviting atrial eyelashes to dine on plywood jumpsuit designers, hobbling the swollen wheat trade. Flowering beauticians deploy drained orchids, rooting for hydrophones in a bottle of sea salt salami. Crash testing continues, despite musky engagements, defying Napoleon’s pineal decree, sending loopy entrees to kiosks for carnival tea. Ogling ale emptiers ingest English endives in a voluntary backwash trial, pining for residual tutelage. Transmissions earn nougat plaques, spangled with crooning streamers, humming avian watchwords for the mastiff. Preternaturally sifted markers drift from cause to rapid denouement, pleased by interleaving world processions, sampling subconscious fruit trays. Ranches steeped in mesa debris sigh a lassoed relief map’s casual key, spiraling into galactic contrail soot. Meat market mincers mock marital metronomes, masking momentary miscues, mercifully muting more meritorious mementos.

poem || David Jalajel

ascension

social precision rather than compassion
defines humility’s integral works
according to the first directive gives a
feeling of insecure propriety
dictates each crisis hopeless-seeming calls
on humble solace won’t allow to surface
beyond our creature passions host sublime
turning points of yearning suddenly
to servanthood and crowding out disciples
as ought grow calm support for deeds surround
enjoying fame’s rewards anticipating
pats on the back and some high-fives procure
this self-effacing depreciated status
of no hard gains no post-climactic rest

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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3 poems || John Pursch

Suripy Esteryer


Tagentie daelimer quanef ephreen,
ont counar biemaret and etchyl shaneift,
effer wonderviel emberful hotchy peromer,
whepple ooteram agers henter herinal proo.

Whad scouda wein zeiunteye
eff a maliproseth squobbler,
pentin from de bek of a bleck
ronk mutin ochock,
triedte oxencute a scatole in plaisant,
und efen tortched yer plawn
and superquential donial hemade!

Whelpen moggert, ichy bin stellarye
whudud cheppentie smogwatch:
die xeavans ould oggle
and scrach onliside odebard,
aspe suripy esteryer settin hearye.





Refresh


Barriers lead to harried ne’er-do-wells, who spend their every merry-go-tale cruising mobile in a dinosaur’s optically graven mode, catching as hatcheries can. Heckled in bronze, futile as carnal eruptions, they press the race, motile and doused in tourmaline lotion of smooth, colored rock, pelted with floral juice outa the boxcar’s ready-made onset of jelly and tasty blue motorcars, contending for a vector’s sidebar to noon. Terriers, candy canes, and trembling wooden amateurs, gaveled to silence, adhere to certain wharves, lunch at flowing bassinets, and preen the tree line’s octagon, ruminating in a quiescent, motley consensus. Imbued with undulating endpoints, parameters of the unicellular wardroom pickle dewy eye shadow with sentimental peerage, vowing neighborly townhouse dances, jesting at coronary kettles. Marinated and flambeed to a nuanced desktop’s immoral iconography, umbral effusion pleats the serenity of a Sunday’s eve with whooping collar games. Did you come away with bed noise tailings, aligned in weekdays addressed to symbiotic rote? Stupors of linear gauges, granted to fluid emergence, hover in mental blurs, speak of wistful windings, and bare their otiose lunacy, prescient and hypnotic. Causal pauses permit the temporary rescinding of empirical charters, freeze a mostly parenthetical rumor, and mill a limited baritone placemat, chopping fresh partners into moody, formulaic gremlins. Clocks down the digital perennials, blemished by slants and basic notches, hammering home tumbling notions of refresh.





Funne Temes


Hai, eben hes xter sendwitchel
mait bekommen reasonous and scrollen,
daun tede etter bend.

Leftempilian sewn,
summayu chartles at merilian octer?

Aim zeroso churly; onklar et bestial rubbenry.
Whod beren heppered tada unphent wordwolf,
hootie nemer mexed sylli balli cudicalsin odgewidth?

Arfye rolly spure dereber vast spooch a trangle?
Praps etsnotso appiobv det wasten crutch
a kindof trang es medeyer mint
atrinken untem qualtie magil,
funne temes gond eropontil.

poem || Felino A. Soriano

Ballet these lines of articulatio
 
With
 
embrace these recollections of youth (energetic mobility ascertaining ease)
            serrated leaps of scissoring limbs
 
etching ache or lake of marbled calm
 
—of the land an after
 
movement defining unobstructed physical acclivity
 
With
 
plenum as though release entails physical
contraption
 
                                    this
documented ergonomic
 
toe-method      spring of elegant scratch
                                                                        land
balanced          fluid control this
 
serenade sans sound with mobile
 
excavation
 
With
 
concentration               orientation                   angled
 
                                                gauge this body
                        of
particular arrangement, winged            woven              worded
prose of a movement’s organic
 
explanatory delectation

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Cornucopulate

Intellectual return of serve aligns with landfill
on the news, as though the frosted child with sentences
removed appends alertness to the frame. Now the tempo
has been raised, the situation offers foresight,
chance repeal invigorates, while shirking customary dowry.
Syllables strung together fall on harsh gravel. Tormented
fleet of foot young athletes tremple accidental obstacles.
Pull the plug and plug it in again. Privilege is its own
worse happenstance. The live remorse refuses jury duty.
In a pinch, she leaves her humor at the door. Voice
lessons from now, you'll feel yourself beholden to our
mercy. Just around the corner, feng shui domiciles remove
addenda where simplicty would be. We speak hosanna here
apart from facing the tribunal with its shelves of bronzed
supplies.

Absolution concurrent with ablutions, piety astride some
random norms

Sheila E. Murphy

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Cornucopulate

Intellectual return of serve aligns with landfill
on the news, as though the frosted child with sentences
removed appends alertness to the frame. Now the tempo
has been raised, the situation offers foresight,
chance repeal invigorates, while shirking customary dowry.
Syllables strung together fall on harsh gravel. Tormented
fleet of foot young athletes tremple accidental obstacles.
Pull the plug and plug it in again. Privilege is its own
worse happenstance. The live remorse refuses jury duty.
In a pinch, she leaves her humor at the door. Voice
lessons from now, you'll feel yourself beholden to our
mercy. Just around the corner, feng shui domiciles remove
addenda where simplicty would be. We speak hosanna here
apart from facing the tribunal with its shelves of bronzed
supplies.

Absolution concurrent with ablutions, piety astride some
random norms

Sheila E. Murphy

text || Peter Ganick

from mobile structures

wherewhy aboriginal copacabana dreary island hopping plots escadrilles demerit slid aspire slaphappy kneejerk invent seizure pastime resilience define shelve dandor psalter vodafone imperious debut yammer once once signature emblematic vessel torque salute unveil sez ez notifiy caporal weep singularity escadrille seeding lamentation festal complicate noted snarl poitrine epsilon quran membrane untried alizarin valises deterministic adventure leaves walkway sturgeon lotto blanker permission lait correctives allargando eeriest aluminum calligrapheme situate commotion stuff aslant sleet hails etiquette opportunity until validate mnemonic clarionette moment alit socialize mobius filament aryan happiness alveoli trauma entrancement wakeful riddle ancilliary blot pendulum sarsparilla eventual praline modification density nominal flurry aleut motion goulash primp savorin excise reminder psalter invent remake connote academe notification walker talker imagination shrug uglifies elsewise bell 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poem || John M. Bennett

Sole Dadas, chunk 12, transduced from Góngora's Soledades:

All consented beat the crystaline
     sedation’s series,
crawled simple cornered codexes the reclaimed
cake less mind than voice and’s verdant seal
enters the name spaghettied mice and tails.
Music’s hole’s vista the minor ram
of the alamo that pains verdant canes;
no zephyrs in him, no risible
lessons putrifying briefs that rot
     all mountains, which, ungrated
al fresco, to harmony and floors
     of’s seat, pisses, amended,
if fresco’s herb crawls the arena ardent
of Lybia, and all quantum’s day’s the fount’s
serpent of huffing’s even major venom
whose nose of Ponto, timid, attributes,
sucking the pie ,sucking the labile oil.
Patsy toads, pus, and regular
crawdads in the equinox’s succored veins
the peels of air lubbers gummed
     bulletins not galls,
     sends grills veiled,
tall vases creaking, tall mentioned loons
     shushing distant extremes,
the character’s tall vase forming alleys
in the paper diaphanous of’s ceiling
     in the plums of his vowel.
Hells entranced in bovrils of slumber
     (painted simpering’s all’s frescos)
clubs at last Sidon, teller turquoise,
whose no hat sable imitates verdant alfredos.
Pencilled reclined the cable
quantum, in numbers equal and in bells,
the margins matted of the fonts’
seconds primed very deep villains
who, parents of’s novice’s own mass circles
which bacons shushed pebbles, of’s present
prevented, concurred to the bop.
     Mezcal’s hatchets toad’s
theater dulcet, not of scenic mutes,
but peaceable seat: space brief
in which, a pisser the Sol, squalid never,
and never colored spill invested,
     the somber vile Florida
     of the herb meandered.

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POME

For jp and several


dreamscasters have news. dog jokes purple gargoyles.

on the backs of dragons. News. slum quarterly cleansing.

lithe axolotyls, neotenic drama. cuts to flaps gravel sand.



Calm chlorine karate dribbling. To his hearthhands melding.

Look to ‘orange fractal scorpions.’ Lyrical deferment starsung.

black rain pooling green medallions. manic eyepullies or ear o


thorns don’t wake clickclock chickclutch. Chuck weaseling bark.

Underpants backup hell tis trunk. watery eyed mattress drunk.

Pencil eraser nips erase scam. Look to forests tunnels faced bark.


Have news slide tricks curious autumn. Hoodies form radio parrish.

'awful cyclone, wearing' breathe glee knees. ...............Fractal hell blunt rain.

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Every sentence in an age group starts with "so." A subset
of said sentences fills spaces interrogative. Factual
material on its way to full erasure is positioned thus,
and scholars everywhere consider something else.
For instance, narrative revulsion. Sonnetry. Awaiting
monikers, in a list of conversations soon predictable
versus unexpected. Virtual restraint. She described a clot
trying to move through a tired vein. Thinking hurts us all. As
velvety mistakes are touched with ease. The roles we occupy
invoke our shouldering long ribbons of task. Together,
unless forced, we brave through obstacles. Those polar
avenues grown tighter, shift magnetic holds on what
comes next. Until we gravitate, we will have broken stride
belonging to another in our club.

Bracken, sorts of violets, earth tones, viable retakes

Sheila E. Murphy

poem || John M. Bennett

X
Altazor’s Sentence

consumption sock cae eter
namente compox panid ply
wood vejez el motor del
pepper history ,box ruined
estatua de las llamas back
ground pencil banderas a
mis pies self-portraits lang
uage nada en las palabras
,fiebre al bordo not this
fried eggs dawn del caos
incansable dialogue ,memories
cigar enigma de los ríos
clear burns ,huracán gutt
ural liberación del sole
locus wheat spine alas
y llave protractor vísceras
utopias de los barrotes
]vitrine ,llave[ book sea
cuna del vacío theoretical
museum anti poeta solar
esqueleto has be word c
lips oreja ,church of pills
mirror spray tejido de las
mareas fried bum potato
o párpado tumbal
,fábricas ,space gasket
fabrics decipher las
órbitas perdidas ,cordura
palimpsest genera nau
seas de estalactitas el
cabello char hormiga
writ fire pox borrasca
faro del féretro anoart
en las playas la columna
la llaga la realpolitik los
anillos del mail art mis
pechos de fqewr visual
trampas de palabras gal
eras lejanas the only
wound alphabet caja del
cráneo driving a car el
viento evapo books ex
ploding túnel randomly
declared sangre de hor
izonte elbdaro elbdaro
wreck magnetizado the
cloud pedazos del no
mbre notation infinito
el fondo de la parábola
eradicated spheres replibots
shrunk la proa de semillas
senos compulsion time
potencia tejado de botellas
sphere license behind
tu pupila agonizante
,cartography exiting el
nido de manos astrológicas
whole violence degollar
el océano culo educativo
egg stories turistas como
serpientes insofar as hist
oriz mar junk carcajadas
poeta homologate parado
gramática hundida rieles
offshore la luz que sangra
no hay meat que perder
pesca sondaje amok
lake ambiguo thumb of
ojos como cartas factory
cages cigarro panic in
dustries pantorilla color
lifeboat ant fork cas
cada de lotería winds
swarm el barco pueblo
la golonchilla la golon
trina development ghost
economy )fuego central(
sombrero del aeroplano
traffic barrier control de
marería control de
sendero often beliefs
concrete dog caravanas
de voz darse prisa
scissors spiders sponge
shoes fósforos aquí yace
frog notion eel infinito ala
adentro mete piedras de los
anarchists collective sea
anoth face ciega colgada
aia ai ai aaia i i plump
events identity screens bal
cón y fuente aquarium
fragments ladrido im
ages found abuelos re
petition durmiendo bajo
los pies de la línea brut
shook las olas del faro ho
rizonte bondage one at
a time funhorse agua
cerebro embra navío
lizard alrededor de los
astros sones archaeology
buzzards y lazos words
can pájaro hirviente corn
rotating en la orilla signo
train the border herida la
boca ,pallets rot molino
de paper shut molino como
descubrimiento tooth thu
mping molino fire sudoriento
meatings girando en la
musiquí fuera de la faransí
arbol múltiple poet fact
hamburger que me diluyo en
múltiples selvas they sur
render los grillos en la azulaya
hurafones not this jigsaw
gime en el desierto capitalist
noncombatants como plan de
pirámide apoteosis ,history
,molusco ,violoncelo ,pie
,seaweed ,war ,avant-garde
nudo ululayo nowhere ul
ulayo enterrado lulayo cris
tal semperviva lalalí
ia infinauta xx x xx



John M. Bennett

Doubling the winds of
Jim Leftwich, Six Months Aint No Sentence
Book 16, 2012
and
Vicente Huidobro, Altazor,
Madrid, 1931

--

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Refuse to simplify, and I will treasure silence. Take my pulse,
and I will overcome your remedies until the charts bleed
safeguard of the wrestled-down complexity you thought.
I owned a curfew I removed from sheriff's odyssey, and now
your job has croaked. Is there a inference somewhere between
leaves of nepotryst? I sense you shadow all the prophets
you have claimed to see. Remember how we felt a spree of link-fests
come to breathe our dotted swiss, our cable-knit wool viscerals,
our oleander pith helmets, our breezeways grown together, and novels
we claimed to have read? I guess your shapely sightseeing has been
bread. I guess we have to match a stranger's plaid to seem a piston
in a dowry. Or the magi come and overlook what we have spun. Now I
whistle straight-man lineage. I host or I concede. I damage the
invective I can hear, not see. When you are in the mood to reap
rapport, come back to me. Toward this seasonal small shift, this splay,
this kinesthetic fray.

Child chewing on a snake, its mother shrieking for the neighbors
while she warms a jar of milk

Sheila E. Murphy