haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Maybe no more lively than the rest. A patch, yes, sequel to the unborn lanyard. What is there, what is presumed to catch the eye of onlooking observists? Chain cleats in a long row, venturing to Canada, to the U.K., to watch otherwise interred. The lanky celebrants conceal their vigor and their storm surplus awareness in favor of an ardent revelation of the armor. Who has been responsible up until now? All voyaging is strained. And conversation. Let him be awhile. The married man has turned to shelter for his pliant twenty-five year old unseated rival. Yes again. A spate of sentimental value looms. What instrument are you reputed to have played, and why? She is so innocent, your choice. She is a brave young vortex who repeats your zeal.  If anyone protects her, you will seek his banishment. What century are we still in, and are its sentiments a match for your invigorating held beliefs? One poses questions or just poses. What has been imposed is furtive. And the priests, the priests are jealous of your having no known creed. They season how they are and when they work and why the loyalty has outgrown its attendant quirks.

 

Sombrero, overtones, a playing field, redress

 

Sheila E. Murphy

2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

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     Ove r[y] ivory

 

 

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poem || Jeff Harrison

Seahorses of M.R. James 
 
CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAPBOOK

a Knysna seahorse, sudden & solitary

/

A NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK

the Réunion seahorse has no need for a name

/

A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS

the wafer-thin conjectures
of the Giraffe seahorse
know where they're going

/

AN EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT

I'll sear your name with candles upon walls,
Atlantic Lined seahorse!

/

MR HUMPHREY AND HIS INHERITANCE

what's this? a sample of a Bullneck
seahorse's own flesh left to flower?

/

THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER

and where lives the Hedgehog seahorse,
queries Jeff Herisson, rhetorically.
a sea out in space some rumor's said to coat,
replies Jeff Herisson.

/

TWO DOCTORS

these chariots
you must behold, Threespot.
the Threespot seahorse is obliged
to face the lion-drawn audience

/

THE TRACTATE MIDDOTH

and you too must behold, Lichtenstein's seahorse,
there are thirty-two letters in the line below
and twelve syllables in the line above

/

THE WANDERINGS AND HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS

submarinely, the Tiger tail seahorse
is the lamp of faraway overnights

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POME

1lo oses    shat te red

egg sup, char    acter

stinkharshspit  haiku

, emitting glit  ter  go

scout  center,     sand

pap ierpropelled fore

n’sicex clu sive golem

new s   ‘some art’  gel

 

 vis ib ly sha kenstylu

 

s ‘handsome re ed  go

 

 

 

2m ark reax portion oto

 

blightedsta[u]mp falsely

 

skirtort  skidding slawko

 

s slowdearawing artisoni

 

blipsuic ide  wooly  mirror

 

st ash looter wounds redre

 

 

apportionments lowing dear

 

th’tarps’ stygianbag shou ld

 

er cortex foloodzone ‘flaxme

 

repro ject edwatch doner  log

 

wat grown  fastid station warp

 

looterw ounds harboringsp ring

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

for Peter Ganick

Any morning traffic takes the air into consecutive arrangements, trying treble clef, viola clef, breath drums, quiet in the polished dark. Watch each bottlebrush along the walk. The word for weeds that should be jewelry makes the yard a globe. The place to pay admission is the mind, where rock formations dry after an overdose of winter. Birds call substance, birds call voiced stringed instruments whose residue will linger in our minds. Whatever namesake strives to take apart the leaves written in declarative blue ink will no doubt transmit the sanctity of city streets. That may be watered or relieved as fate turns noticeably weaker than the pale parade of happenstance. Now the flowers we elect to train our eyes to see become a ritual before they go unnoticed in the foreground of some gray divisible. As actuarial tables rise to smooth out expectations bottled as they are before our constant celebration of supposed independence.

Fireworks, foster exploration, cloud cover prior to assignment of a name

Sheila E. Murphy

2 poems || John Pursch

Crestature

Dein reddiest phineally oppertained, 

en unspringian werehodgie uvever

lopping grazin gazettle gazelles, 

splong de esplanade, hooverinup 

ebbery machinatory helmetous 

ankerin fer whodeber undwhoozie 

antsy swoon ken muzaboot. 

Unterstricken eet esterbar, 

mointy fleathery crestature; 

slow sanguinity en elmost 

anchory dripadrabdropplie; 

megott, eet’s whale night 

Plutarchian forty lichens mead!

Whooble Die Nor

Achter umer den trebulus wexum, 

quod ixeram hodgle when smoochin

fleuters blonter woth spoutie,

nafflestan trendel frontiscope chouple, 

whardention smockle brent exerhet monch. 

Whoa, spential rhutemulin ontains; 

frex zeinten ominie bruisties porchania 

ploxa som noxian egrophanter, 

plentock illi hemulin edgie quon, 

crebble inger phon whooble die nor. 

Toolimin browchar ontu menth, 

phleg histoman otcheren wanstoch oflein, 

kibbinous ranfald oominton exel, 

etchendie zouncon froggin dan mouncon,

brespian grudel plen omtious hogen dephleen.

4 poems || John M. Bennett

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soon rustled in the neck I

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of paint and frenchfries

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glannd hogggy in the lungch

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lungtress cants my

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duck written was  .a

towel ▒ tract ,where I

blew my nase ●l outside

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text || Peter Ganick

drastic wholly presume grade ownership rallentando otherwise assail mentor anchorite wager syntax covert lossless uninterrupts declassification merriment assent white slapdash flutter saith nsaid dandelion litter sforzando unglue repatriate vocalize motto settlement notion slippery acme thosethere urteil dictionary nosegay gaudy lotto scale paradigmatic velocity ennui ousia thatness widely opaque moribund ingredient squamous thinkings euphoric settlement widely sufferance harpoon site wagoner nasal try enormity target peace fortitudinous awake coccyx neomancer tresor smirk laideur activation allargando eachnessless introspection laideur nomos throughput eachness wannabe intersect hooligan yammer contrastive unicycle tread iterating val de mar enigma seer tangent slowhand hooplah unit awareness shad reuse slot environment lassitude northern bureaucracy telos demur eachness merciful rampage seizure pleonastic vacuum nibble yellow targets contact ivory lineation scruple accordion spliff engulf reactionary blanket feint allotropic colder spatial motto screen anniversary beneath sizeable thosethen cellwise retain coverlet wonderfully coexistent unfurl delphic periodicist vanguarding elsewise commence rub striate emotional giver mouthpiece ratchet fortissimo granite laideur placebo intolerable contrast ibis voluntary thingks issuance beholden topicality educationalize moot emotional vulcan terazzo urreal cosmic paradox tureen alternative osprey ambiance stowaway paradise othered kirtan motto murky annoint essence parrot essential acetone raillery niblet accordion slump radian afterthought nothingness awaken nobis pace temerity caliper vanguarding earliest gratitude mogul estrange innermost versus thorough stampede tram strung oversight wrought unreal readability comment sizeable ritornello gift nominal quarto blunder sting releases deterrent calyx bitten yoga euphonics literal commote rad vedette amity coerce alsoed intimidate no elsewise fractal mirror agenda smack guessed avant graffiti sleuth calorie commote olde loiter poultice agnosis those redirect candle nasal pirouette caution sudden apnea commote where slake dowel niacin lossless inquiry naga benzene alit grotto paradox mittel angel snowfallen paradigmatic elevation scrupulous deterrent connotation lyre wooden site asemic ahimsa clef frequent rarity spooner traduce impart stronghold evening bravura snip assiduous thatthere incurable talon lectern academic ludic aft lotsa grimace plural cilliate mesto hittite alhambra sic genetic realism coercion qi qua nth womb qwaali that edit fence sitter ontic all together aisle paradise stagnant motorcade singersongwriter embellish graphematic listener connote salida assure seize through simian celsius thresholds enablers singersongwriters thosethere fiasco tentative aspiration specious treadmilling vicarious tornado spoken lotsa button seldom

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POMEemailrothko

for peterfrompeter/alteredme

b/’[.=[]a c/k fro m\ a

p/’[]la yabo u’’[]tma

rkr;][o th ko, ;[][]' Re]

E[e D".v cha l[]l;,/[en

g…ing bo;lkotp’hl fo

 

r t]h/’-=e ac t]’/or s a

nd for the audience

looking forward to m

ore pomes.a few rai

ndrops here. ndrops

peter

poem || John M. Bennett

this n that

not this y tubo muchos

uastardos y uastardas,

auquiconas curiit less

image ideology hand jut

y en los pies los quatro

ataderos healing bones space

thousand stories sea fue

uerde claro forseen

paths a las enfermedades

y pestilencias clouds sofas

shells su chambi en su

mano derecha water

brain uacas y sacrificios

clouds no pudo conquistar

ebdma ojiaeri satoimas lo

tiene sólo en la boca egg

no traga illegible ox

quartz auca camayoc

comían perros xtent of

wretched germs ‘uac’

meet book otorongos y

mullo son ferós no one

collage-like op

posite ix type xix

moving hacían tinquichi

hombre con la muger beaast

vapopro ago con mays

molido y senisa socialism

plav sock collap y ueuen

sangre cruda blurred by

sub machay mama pre

dominant doctrines corf

tracn muture el sapo y

le coze la boca y los

ojos con espinas otting

specta belt shirt augur

son hechiseros toman

coca between iden reeks

usual hist mode church

vacas ýdolos chirapa

uncuy ahorgarse en

rríos fracttured froom

culture ha arrastrado un

gusano, augur reeks mi

muger va a morir nina

nina might th ha indivic

coast swaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

the system llamata nacani

explain cloudy feathers

tragado por la tierra no

an de morir mandan

baylar planting fat

frustration uelan la

noche cin serrar los

ojos disorder surrealist

currency dando gemidos y

bozes aya uya agua a Dios

y de ynbijarse y huntarse

la cara leg wooden dog

food rhythmi process dizen

que sucidía same car

immersive pistelencia de

guzanos admist circuitry

rreventar el bolcán pro

truding yllapa who there

que llaman pucullo less

the sal no agí traces to

button text defunto con

sus ojotas evisceration

signatures al difunto le

destripan face typed into

myselx silhouettes los

güesos antónitos oro en

la boca vast pandora

loop ayap llactan con

perros traces climactic

house panca kkes is

dejan los chunbis

nascent meat los vellacos

anca kkes shadowed

que la comiesen bibo

surfface dichas hórdenes

corna moasc was

nightmare ideologies

tormentos de cuerda

another reality is about

cephalopods tirándole

con piedras en el

citio mana mi cosca

which penetrates

such as ink cinqüenta

asotes about the

obsession reality little

to lose colgado bibo

de los cauellos clart

hegemonic vission le

pizasen en la barriga

ensnared ideal ecline

collective runa tinya

schoo sword saltar

los ojos afuera civil

quena purpling clam

violent repr metaphysics

bestidos como muger

rrisa al hombre circ

ulate Eterrn vista

enamoraua el Ynga

widening autonomy las

cosas ací de los

hombres speak often

tocaua la barriga

exxpans not that