text || Peter Ganick

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3 texts || John Pursch

Pedestrian Felt

Dropping their kneepads, euphoric sailors ease behind the smelling saltines, crunchingly keen on stammering yodelers and the slowly quashed mantra’s infrequent glide. Capsule raptors glimmer in the peptide slurry, weaning u-turn addicts from fifths of closure brew. Lozenges slip to snapping manta breath, issued by lost shelves of nasal glyphs, hammering stolen cravers into tiers of normal sects. Hoovering down a mime’s atrophied segue, threadbare ions speak to all inhabitants, simulating origami flecked with cavernous pralines. Bifocal seedlings tremble and flounder on the spores of tonight’s manly intrusion, chopping the basting timepiece into obeisant murals, spliced with delicately regrooved tumbleweeds. An effortless rotation quibbles with marshland over gaseous underwear, rippling current stairwells with quota calls and chirping pleats. Sameness measures under disguised heaters, falling through skylines, dropping backlit empties, pouring insects onto back-page gazelles. Owners reap inverted produce, plugging bilious race cords into navel lint, blowing off nattering winners, sending up chalkboard fumes. Quaking in feral effluence, teams of mired hackers extricate embattled jets from terminal sighs, inchoate and flailing tightly, pining for pedestrian felt.

Oatieoat Arbox

Ochenprexer urimatin enpoin antsigren, afruvence oins trecourled ees, poraque atchalum estor whangled destockets oleapet roginous moush. Ecarsem daikloinets inten horpen freckulta monch, lesting tapachrotes aubards, welken uplan tracie gophlouken avary surky whalmer’s efterbot oatieoat arbox. Preadinta scarbon, deftada soshin’s loshin, crintamo esplunium pougas, traxeren henningen albowso cleast. Efferected oighn enda voilee pust plurn odie bartrum’s enk.

Shuffled Steak

Classed as paycheck urns by craven gobblers, freshly spotted mutes crawl simply, giving heel service to the towed and vacuous sentience that constitutes our daily broth. Smoothing under the dragging carousel, blowing searchlights into cresting, nearby dunes, the tram congeals in mud pie aging, woozy and given to granite cheese, melting evenings into midnight’s chiral stew. Dallying for another brick walkway, distant clouds meander through brambles of boozing grease, wintering with the frozen hallmarks of intricate resection, pressing riffled digits into half a shuffled steak.

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

This opiate of weeping that she does inflects. And fairly propped young integers relieve us

of our shift. All ironing notwithstanding, a perk point five is what we pour across

our druthers anymore. My surface takes to one-one-two when sans humidity I walk

you walk she walks we warm to you to them, and constitutionals go free. In the early

moment of this century the weeds grow plentiful, we pluck their strings. Our Leonard

man has gone, she heard him on the first day he stood before symphonic space.

Stiff uppers scoffed. His coffers would be overfilled as our events would be seen

through. No matter how geography plays hay against the moon, we take our

chaperones still riveted by openings. I write to twelve different metronomes.

The droning wheat tones smudged by wind are otherwise drawn things. The

young man who phoned announced that he had lived through what I cannot know.

New engine has been ordered, will be built next week. Our aftercare is poise.

The moment a lament begins, we clear the other noise. My say-so turns your usual

brisk song. I take you at your word. The entr'act repairs to private places, full-term

luxe.

 

Mere divinity, the way I ask you to recall scenes to our left

 

Sheila E. Murphy

text || Peter Ganick

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4 poems || John M. Bennett

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poem || David Jalajel

unwind

scour the shoreline for the silver dollars

skipping off the water in slow motion

scanning for patchy colour is quite lovely

eyes like the dark green outer creases hold

luxuries tumble easy slip on wear

with goring ankle straps the lace up front

to feel the rhythmic music freely pouring

out the icy droplets band across

their foreheads and their flowing golden hair

with copper hints at pressures to resist

coming out prematurely from the bright

trappings on their towelling drying eyes

a frosted moon that slides across the counter

insisting those initial terms apply

2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Stilts or minus signs, splintered, though the walk. Shades two

filed motion overneath combed palo verde transom. Lockstep

garden in redactive mesh. This window of a new house I keep

seeing no reflective glass. The sprinkler's somewhere on. I know

what warmth I know. A silver kind of keepsake and a globe

in the garage. Symphonic. Why do what is done yet? Stultifying

overthrow. The crumbs kept for the king and lapsed imagination.

Comatose at once. And stillness for the measured share of this

dumbfoundery. He bought volumes to prepare me for a shallow

brush against implaneture. How warm wool is basted to the

touch. My precious metal premonition.

 

Portion control, sweetness only at a distance, the breath of one

 

 

Sheila E. Murphy

3 poems || John Pursch

Frenetic Throne

The yearling weighs a seasonal platter of tender municipal graphite, warning a putter of impious waterfall ploys, panning terminal jingles with toothy placards. Drums roil, warts careen off peerless welts, and newly spotted grooms infect the heaving chassis with rashly angled feats. Shades of sheet music entertain a guessing game’s sister of matrimony, hocking childhood for hourly grist, grown by the century. Aimless and peering under wagon truces, general implosions convert legendary patches to everyday paths, Brownian and ill-defined, flipping bitwise latitudes for shortened treadmill use. Handoffs preclude the shuttlecock, crafting infant cider from incorruptible vermouth, splashed by ambidextrous flunkies on crossword frazzle necks. Phlebotomy sets in, yielding sloped wickets, jimmying the glowing horn’s foveal basement tine, halting at a duodenal etching. Bowling flourishes against an onset’s florid tomb, ignorant and blazing, setting neutered operatives after poshly resected fiefs. Domiciles eschew compartment jeans, freely imbibing a third drumstick’s artful cage, regardless of initialed capers. Semantic flutters span the blushing swath, hatching mental shinpads, crashing a partially impaled changeling into stability’s sunlit ardor. Berths fuel the pyre’s vaulted incentive, spraying human secrets on axial bloat’s frenetic throne.

Oggerif Ikes

Olan smouzien arfs, 

endet crenob und 

ooterlooms pera 

crumerie socht, 

grenafi eltenphlie 

tourminal wouch, 

cronoufen chender 

sen hodgle. 

Plaxum gautil animous 

scheptel pueronamel ziegen, 

ephogsal menbariet’s septher, 

ochied orandumen cloppet 

en orteminous unsline noum.

Iridential fluchartimines 

pleanse dascht eigerde

meidal munificine rheuts, 

etchentier krein phosticles, 

plen muterine oggerif ikes.

Tin Hammock

Crepe operands smear percolating gypsies down cylindrical halls, bleary-eyed and touched by bales of wickered finery, melting into charmed neophytes. Peristalsis jabbers at hidden eternal moons, angling for fleshy wire halters, groaning into a collapsed awning’s only barkeep. Swapping torment for easy chariots, circular mastiffs freeze supernal racks of farmhand sneezes, doling out an armature’s higher feature, phlegmatic and subdued by worms. Dietary embers endure, imbued with swollen altimeters, hitching a halyard to safer poles of harsh Anglican magnates. Speeding for an altered dream’s agoraphobic bleat, copper collars tighten, grabbing knotted gurney kits, shaking ape marauders till they boil the splenectomy’s pleasing pinwheel. Points of disinterment rest their closet chasers, dashing wrought vinegar on icy rows of cucumber malts, servile and appropriately raucous, given the nooner’s crescent swoon. Old and stranded in memory’s tin hammock, our bony estuary angers enchanted usurers, ushering out the bridal fleece, meting in the unmeshed quotient’s lasting Dorito. Elders hinder tinsel grams, spilling neighborly wards, tumbling prone gown makers into tugboat cues. Horizons breed septic actions, lashing ominous prescience to a tipsy motive’s laminar brow, curried with bioflavonoids. Flooding the octagon, mastery implies dearth, freely heating the backbeat’s blue intent.

poem || Jeff Harrison

Porphyry Ziggurat
 
avaunt Virginia
reveille amaranth
drillbit cumulate
Appius phosphorus
    many guess the night and become ghosts
 
acrolith urchin
Virginia picture
convulsive masonry
sunflower Appius
    rain fell without knowing a wingbeat
 
hubbub ossuary
backtrack Appius
gooseberry abscess
Virginia incurably
    I wish sense in syllabling bright the scales of sirens singing
 
Appius ruffle
rum completion
acrolith Virginia
throstle diplomacy
    "poison" to Porphyry is Paradisiacal for "forest"
 
bother chomp
gooseberry Virginia
allotted bluebonnet
Appius cumulate
    oh! how billow your gleams, Memory!
 
Virginia perforce
morrow picture
quadruped Appius
dissention phosphorus
    echoes do immobile steadily grow
 
backtrack umbral
Appius ziggurat
subfusc ruffle
throstle Virginia
    a last question of Homeric mechanism, or...
 
hubbub Appius
"avaunt spheres
psalmists hear...
Virginia completion
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allotted Appius
...coarsest airs
conquer care"
Virginia amaranth
    ...your horses of porphyry, O sources of puerile diagram!

text || edde addad

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pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

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from SyllAbuSSes

image rebuilds bo  unce.     how can the unsentient leap?   snap

quibble complains aplain.   lectures the variance?                road

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inside an idiotic      wron.     s hen  compliant cruise?           mass

 

dance pretends        para     meter  idiom serves as eve?          heaven

jack ro       mance    mails.     wrapper appears     without ?      forum

slow liver shines     before.    jammed linkcream pillsrevolt?     plague

landscapes the differentia.    seeking flower simulates a sen?  lance

idiom                 calculates.    shot bag gloves the tomato ab?   lyric 

 

insistence hunts an identity.  no parallelcan the custom prêt?   t end