3 texts || John Pursch

Housewife Sandwich

What we have seen is veiled by lost inklings of a calendar’s sweet malaise, turned to trailers in a domed statue’s choral vacuum. Selfless terms simper into turnstile vendettas, sidle up a planter’s christened façade, and immunize a cartwheel, frying whimsical altars at dawn. Jettisoned by germinal artichokes, a fluffy pedal pusher sears the rows of gearbox gowns with lame therapies, ceding the high ground to crammed jungle props, repelling sequined minerals. Easing into the seaside enclave, bracing for embryonic whist, a sharpened seed finds solar lassitude in edgy worlds of final luxury, remanding egrets to the waistline caboose. Freighters bob in the beans of baying gamers, sprucing down a fluke’s dorsal coating. Moot entendres speed in silent trance to stenciled op-art bassinets, plastering housewife sandwiches across a porn star’s looping, bridled gnu. Emory tape ejects reported bits, emitting practiced sinecures of cherished southern whey. Bushy concepts heed a tuna’s growing blob, blushing at the garbled phylum’s docile pronation bid.

Amption Krutil Inore

Ortimon flob quonter 

itious plumany, greben 

monchter eeth epsilon 

blentie und spensil. 

Whedgington grastle 

en courtian, tendermen 

flein emperlon orrier 

soudle maf, aning lawnies 

per heffle, swoudgle 

octorong tamber furine. 

Scret chinoot anarticon 

quedgles paromiton 

spetchies und hemperin 

lieds. Brontial aximers 

crinchy galonical, 

amption krutil inore. 

Wino Reset Bladder

Redundant scars absolve cerebral ladles of all encrusted tarps, leering and guffawing, hovering beneath a bottom shake routine. Chaining seamless artisans to strolling rock marriages, societal mares winnow the florid entries, parting pants for cooling hose lies. Rebuttals kiss antithetical barcode slammers, grazing halftracks with octal pelts, freaking over avian umpire skits. Tendencies to home in under radome glows lead a crowded boxcar to curried transom clues, renaming prehistoric fences. Ovals cleave archaic sisters, spending clarity’s largesse on vicious segments of unpopulated brie. Steady depth mesmerizes the barge, crimping pointed triage pews with cocktails made for paper-cuts. Perspiration bleeds through offhand mules, asking camshaft kitties for daycare clackers or dreaming lassoes. Shifty handsprings crush cholesterol counters between encoded thighs, clanking out of tombstone cars, spattering wimpy urgings across the scanner’s silver. Corrected monkeys wig out for nominal effusion, blindly corroborating a meatless surfer’s greeting-card truce. Horns defy all nascent ordinances, fueling each alley’s wino reset bladder with pointedly startled antiques, darkening a risky prune. Soon propositioned tunnels will wean a bathing chutney’s frosted lowlife of its grazing phobia, covering the stockyard with stylized beets. Hoot at freely mown omens, slacking off till no one spells an impresario’s itchy pylon.

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

More of the daylight, equalized, occurs in lullabies. Pacific shingles

lattice how the source is built. More shields sinking means

the premises are locked down as the antonym of our mentality. More

of the dampness breaks away from surfaces, minds filled with

other minds. More tonnage fortifies smooth walks across the vast

place codifying feasts and whelps. More yarn, more lodes

to muse upon, about, around. More gardens than the eye can count. 

More of the same estrangement. More feeble in the freshness near 

tormented gardens. More of appearance-driven heat and swarms 

and stay-put butterflies. 

Miranda rights, modalities, mown hay drawn sheets of mercy

Sheila E. Murphy

text || Peter Ganick

thereas moviegoer saith sez ez mitten height erasure plotting sleep tentative loci dalliance promulgate merriment loquacious therereht surcharge vending parallax copain motto beurre tidy scamper niacin leisure delegate comparable otherwaves delirious sembable quantifier patterning scree pellet nova denial snope rad noesis guffaw clash quorum socal borough slipcover without sic those demanding settlement avid sendoff metamorphose dullard foible thatthere reisling occident augur sackbut eachness once lectern midrange psalter noisome capulet hidden swirling affability once essent singer also grace prochain delve procedure asleep viperous capulet render accurately prelude coffer snippet qwaali density contractual omigosh holding panache deterrents alcoves settlements errata dilettante casein brachiophile edict farreaching compadre seizure feint garaging whichwhererehwhcihw niter sanitize umpire callas nietszche lissome alacritous energetic alveoli capricious dampering sackbut eachnesslessly refugee swindle tonearm eclat remind seizure placebo rim stratifies deliberate slight formality actuarial noesis thoroughu speciously adopted nimbus quantifier eachlessness withdrawal snapper wandering slat nitpick windowed opportune calyx varsity permafrost calculus delirious tenerife smiling egotism nature slight formulaic grammar wherewhy incidental palinquin selflessed nth nimble redux closure palladium recursion vacuum delirium neat humanization elementary parachutists evade least engulf transitory eachness lotto spasm metier vaccine aplomb scruffy nearby iterative mode through salient accedes radius scent enough terminator bingo rasa oeuvre lasting elixir those rooftop stiffed smokefilled orphic slight moondog eachness wavering celadon vectored implacable thosesoht reflective naturally quaff socal toon scaramouche nadir relief snapdragon effigy perilous 

3 poems || John M. Bennett

olvido

rent truster an the dogger

led the ,leg counts ,blew a

crunk yr sam shirter ,est

nur plendy la corona nad

aficante la palabra “the” a

toda madre y la puerta se

alquila  .don Luis ahogada en

su mar avec les bergères my

wallet vacant with a

bag of rice of worms of

gravel sparkling in the

alley O yr sucking hat

O ~ ~   )loosing blood   )wal

k away   )the shingled mO on

/ / O\\

olvido

siempre rutil ante mano ,soco

rrido no me sismo you but t

akes the rlabbit sppluttters

cake against the glass un tr

ueno es  .pues hombre ,fus

ilánime ,sudorificante como n

ada ,nodding ,nadante en

la tazajante cafetero  .me

vi la palabrisa inescrita ,al

go en la palma ,algas sin

sentido que entendía lo que

supe ,sé  .say or  .sp

read whirrled writ the

nube nexo the lomo a

hogado con sus caras in

finitas derretidas y los

dedos desintegr antes que

me asen a toda muerte

  

olvido

nada había ni ,una lluvia frágil

,nube de concreto ,o de concreto

nube ,numbered ,necked my

shadow ,louder ladder c

rashed into the glass my

restive leather contur

bado seats and skies the

,shiny splinters con mis

reflejos surely ,yes a

something hair ,nuca nu

nca mas ,an ear an air

.field cloud ,gnat luck

,dog piled and ,forma tu

erca ,y puerca mi

cara o calle o ,climbed

,up an out ,the strips of

shadow laid out in rows

,and ffluttterredd d  d   d    d     d

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text || Edward Nichols

Plectraelectric sends a magnifying dish of crustaceans swimming cloisterous venacular. Plarshuts parasarade the blotched cularstance and startle the tregulated hypocollar bluardian. Don't tackle a tenth of sogarious clanpipes if the aluminum tentacle courteously regains a stronghold. Cragglesteps beguiled the rotten-pinch ; then the stench of claywattles gypsies of the moon come swim glittering to the austacious preciouspipe of wiggley-swan- songs betrothing the edifice of courtcount mantlepiece lace of mothflying voice over clutterparts. I've swarms of lidicous vaporian regalia. Say spruce up the crymanal Tennison of irrigated cloisterous brawlings. Twenglesmorth the fuel inspected Moon Rockets of glaring treason.Besmirch the claintesdomed freemongrels and treglunth cleavage

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Hair now light wheat hue, and wind goes ninety-nine degrees to sprinkle

tones from chimes outside my neighbor's door. "Cooler today, a bit," say radios.

I'm  fastened to the desk I love. The keyboard soon will be replaced. Mid-week,

no sign of conclusion. In an hour,it will be time to wrap up scansion and its monstrous

revelations. Each day, calls for proposals elevate desire beyond usual weeds.

Summer remains a grand time for endowments. Crops mature in unison with

pioneering spirits, as ancestral sleeves. As though immune to in-vogue sentiments,

the unraveled pleasure of firm stasis. All the threats have names we can pronounce

and speak through in the form of an informal bond.

 

Chalices planted on shelves, dry season, comaraderie enough to go around

 

Sheila E. Murphy

3 texts || John Pursch

Soggy Flies

Charismatics plunge above tramline stairs, swinging weakly for the derailed tomb, switching to foreign lesions in lieu of entry-fee heuristics. Squeezed blotches face an envious torpor queen, stipulating medical homilies to rage between a carnivore’s few sales events. Outer elders trample beached panoramas, pejorative and aloof, trying suborned circuit spiels in sacked and tailored booths. Kneepad whiskers issue wispy antlers, tearing down dreamt apertures, emergent and mixed with spun mittens. Fruit patties fill an omnivore’s family train, cobbling off a serial moocher’s lust for weed patrols. Divided subalterns put short hippies into mutant icons, swapping dishrag razors for cheetahs made in Spain. Truncheon brew, served with rising enmity, sweetens a cardigan’s worn sleeveless ire, clattering to discussion portal fumes. Replicated docks partition anonymous jingles, rendering troves of endearing warps from sidecar casket news. Teary orators peek ahead in lactose hells, breathing solid fur, rippling real itches for a dozen soggy flies.

Floxie Mobertrak

Cartrodginous phelter moun 

emier glinton bantudimal hemt, 

eajen trin sempoch exiter 

prome chistula. 

Exum whootch inte scremulot frieg, 

anker choot orple stemph inchenture 

prond efuliam achorine squelt, 

prenning zondunile cheeth, 

archen flugal semir. 

Dronier proozen graplemark, 

luftabai krom benderpreit, 

samtibune etchenzie 

octer grene chur. 

Snockin fure dreu ichenbar, 

wettel zoiper fronken 

alipreit ormantile heid, 

arp ontie floxie mobertrak. 

The Philadelphia Experiment

Cresting moats offset any feudal armpit’s flaccid niche, lasting well past scolding time, evaporating at a measured psalter’s gangly gradient. An intermittent ensign flickers topside, smudging the foggy seawall, blending gray tension with cunning, hammered into sweet clouds of barking sprouts. Barely scudding above peristyle dregs, the mariner’s glower turns to ivory signals, morphing shaky wheelhouse crones to salad, resting dangerous divers for a fortnight. Oilers meet with carnival shepherds, feeling their dazed rainbows, shielding heaps of lampooned gentlemen from momentary beans. Meanwhile turns to after hours, singing braided oxygen, firing the cabinet, eclipsing newly janitorial seedlings. Transitions defame a handheld finger, sketching ornery ochre timers, planning astringent boomers in tenderly affixed knaves. Naïve drummers swelter to the stone’s thrown idolatry, certain that spartan chances will slobber wooden droplets. Weirdly doting seminar pollsters hover nearby, complicating daubed crucibles.

text || Edward Nichols

Wagner-Ah a special candle have i, the drizzling drops of dripping are water into the one-eye, it seems to be viewing the terrestial wave of the outer road of continents flowing circumstance. Thre,i see the three pink monuments guarding the flow , the wave, the transmission of glishshandoing intent, and the great bird of onward slagging swoops and droops over the wave fields surface. The pristine fossilized state of aestheistic modernism plucks a vibrational note on the string of his frequencies conundrum.Hermes-The two-hundred foot tall black and white television responder transponder an organic resupplication of true artificial edifice. As i slow any pretensions on the tuner and adjust in the static field of fossilized activation.

2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

Quickde dPOME

heaped faith

   nas tygo

linesun ders

cored like

tablets/flis

heish direly

 

la terustf

orw

est di

    planter mys

co   neal    ibit

seer ma cro s

co pe filg    ertad

 

lumpatkin laugh h

ys             trric

lly

 page firea

fle eflu  te      fomeph

trustwor

sty  mat

t

aho rn diep e

rt op ple

teaped jaya

aaayth  gunme

i s  tern   ouys

less er

    er

         r   

            uh

 

POME

wance to sh oadhing an ti  cie

do mak e nop ga’her ing ritual

floss hatrip vam mitt det ter a

glow ing dim ple sunlikel y tran

cein du ced for’uneslea k   riper

gravel mist gurney dam dae toe

sh oad hing a n  ti       ga ther ing

 

shirt load xenon draped unraveli

fless harnop vam mit t d  et   ter a

gavel mast  gur ne y da m dag toe

eleven oclo lin shap farc gien  gi er

cein du forunes lea k  ripertw e lve