3 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POMElo[uve]r[th]g[h]t

Rud[eto]mato [do]leful[bal]e

Fru[it]onh[and]sjaz[zov[erge[or]gia

Re[mem]beri[n]g[fo[odet[teve t[ted

Dri]n[k]in[ase[cond] thi[r[dlywa[she]s

Do[w]n[t[extshi[nes[stre[etscl]ean[ers

Mo]n[ster]stog[ut]teral[so[und]swal[ lo

]w Wil[l beag[ o]od[su]n]da[y  cond] thi

 

 

 

…from  ArtaudRefluxions

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POMErits …[from ArtaudRefluxions]

can the morning behave with  cloister toast?                    mining of  rosesauce

does the depressed suit represent a ‘blasé’ manet?        pocketweeds only are’dew’

how can a preferred coat  cost an anthology?                   spliced thistle

how can this pocket finemill a critic?                                           distance hovers

can identifying a fluteolin praise the daystream?               hiking beneath the sod

can an esphere ha l ve the context?                                      rolling dusttrea sure suffers

 

poem || Barry Alpert

THE SKIN I LIVE IN

via Pedro Almodovar

Tell me if it burns

harder than human skin.

Excuse the transgenesis.

So I must forbid you from leaving.

Kill her or keep her here forever.

I’ve got insanity in my entrails.

Not a chance.

I’ll have to blackmail him.

Look,

I never told her,

Vicente, leave Cristina alone.

Everything has to be cleaned.

I’ve got insanity in my entrails

now . . . your name is Vera [Cruz].

2 poems || John Pursch

Frontal Sleep

Hartaspay wai awluvus encyst on 

grovelin flummy point as who to be, 

rurally ever chosen to simply stop

at moments, urging us to clarify 

the passing cloud, glowering at arms, 

keeping smartly dashed courtiers 

for youthful gazes. 

Hostels overflow, libidinous ends galore, 

cashing in coastal grazers for soupcon chives, 

firming up an awesome edge, ergonomic latches 

spread to geyser pouch, lent to viral Nefertiti;

gets harem diurnal claims in seminal polarity, 

ductile dreams, and goobers of graceful grout, 

between da thyme dat’s sew incur abomino. 

Sinuous caretakers lift a woolen doormat, 

chilling all the lazy grifters with kicks of 

frontal sleep, leading us ta mervalat wut 

moitle be damoost everlastin oxen, 

cragu simple odie efferfective noosten of

da prayer, unto cars der bayin answered 

bitsy Juan und bersum comely unity. 

Stadiums coil in exhale’s humid tort, 

glazing the orator’s flushed browser,

inanely splendid so senty octal indie 

empty pit, whoxie darrutian sprennil 

quon prumiat mock tier en boxer, 

ecremier swine, orgamulous chariot 

to crown a cudgel, grinneth spine 

cod our fendumen watch. 

Storing cracks in ample sidecars, 

pinning cons on royal gams,

ursine balms address the dawn,

stretching a truth table’s eulogy,

taut as only panties can be.

Ayeyes Vooroom

Low veneers of fumigation 

rock their loosened footfalls, 

dressing Latin oracles for migrant 

oinkin ‘bout a graph, sorta willy-oldie, 

fleein phar the whitest ruly oast, 

endies sloth spon bluriphon icious. 

Mousetraps spill a wizened overture, 

cordless and idiosyncratic, idly stealing 

the warm autumn heir’s crest outa

veeper, tweezin human hock tarper, 

anting on an empty crone. 

Observers fry Geraldo feelers, 

stashing anteriors for future plaudits, 

canonized in stickball’s Teflon bum,

flan to reaching wash in eberten 

crom per honest whirple, 

hailin Scotchie hendersal. 

Handled with a plumb line’s deftness, 

aptitudes emaciate a laudatory archway, 

delving into offered resins; swing the sun 

to central, into ephronotic cree, down on

her tenemba glower, marty aftil soom, 

espargi hoctile fragrant eyeful 

embers black ta moonin arb. 

 

Helping a sworn deputy, thrill seekers 

ride the fastest neural locomotive, 

gargling cheap soda with framed 

manila voters, fencing off ampersands 

of youthful need, blurtin “Ayeyes vooroom!”

where bogus pewter’s hidin sleap. 

3 poems || John M. Bennett

olvido

blind washer clouud mmy mmuutttteereed

mmuuttee tthee spoon conttaineed ,yr

divinattion ,silencee spokeen ,loott

ruummbleer nor ,mmy ask tteentt

)¡whisttlee!(  lúúmmeen nortteeño

y uuna carreettrreera con cabeezas c

on piees y mmanos ,bolsas neegras

de plásttico y ví eel platto dee

hígados y seeranos ...o la nada

veeía ...préésttammo deel fin

.ttu shitt commía and yr

bowl mmy eemmptty leeg ree

ttuurneed tto a drying puuddlee

e e l d d u u p

a ttiny car glistteening in suun

- a wall of floweers – mmeeatt

an mmis t  t : :  :   :    :     :      :       :        :

“...sa...chaussure, plein de boue” – mr. de Ténir

  

olvido

sshell waass ccoughing blocckk

ssaacckk bissturí invissible

,fonología ccaasstaa y vaaccíaa

maass putrid ssocckk door

aate my aaim in firess ,fog

gaatess ,lipss or ,ccraacckk

ling maazess – breaath of

ssiglaas ,tumis russting in

the jaarss crusshed in ho

less  ))river craasshing down

the mountaain~(( ~  ~  the

aage of livered laakkess

my tongueelessss esstuaary

where I aate the plaate of

...beaanss...  ))))))))ssky ,rudder

,phone

...y tragó el comprimido – C. E. Rote

olvido

the ssorted sshadow chimess a

cor nur mured where my lap

ssed th ought’ss a crissc

raw  ))meaty foot mile((  ah

dang led russt ling in the d

rain my ssee med t haw

a ss pelt leaf de lettered

ssp ring deletreadoss loss g

ritoss in son deadoss la ssom

bra del ssissmo  ]]ful

minante[[  “sslept beneath the

dusst” the towerr ssplit the

tongue lathered toward the f

inal para graph  )sseeping

ssailing ,sstinging greasse( 

was the wind a fork ?

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Only a bounty of relating needs repair. The sun elapses just when water has been drunk. How many spare redemptions are expected to appear on the market? Capped chaps tingle when they come in from the sidewalks. Is it any wonder the duration makes it hard to like? My angst endowed with quiet seems to peer over the stone fence. When I think of you, I think of salsa. When I trouble fate, it blesses us in unison. Or if the sumptuous recording of the oboist still hovers at my pate, then how are we to rectify unknown mistakes? Listen to the mood be changed as we refer ourselves to people who aren't looking, never were. Hush marks leave their influence where it started to be drained like plain swampland. Now as if I cared, I will have left the plot within my diary. I will have sacrified the favored ration statehood. Suppose I then turn to your thin record of arrest and challenge you on its significance. You were a young boy in a labcoat who turned ease into a dungeon. People cried for you. People heard you die without a body. People reputed to be cared for by your absence.

Neglect as cardinal sin, the empty air, a parcel at the desk

  

Sheila E. Murphy

3 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POME

…on[e wa]y to be.  [Am]o[t]re sou[v en ir

as[sumeS]plas[h]ed ]fr[o][m ………[… … .].

a gre[t hre]ig8.   [ Fr]eig[h]t…………[]……[.

tak]enho[ldf]ru[it emapron.aspricotsH  ol

dOn[e b[y th]en. Ma]ny[on[e]wa]ru n. [Ai]r p

…………………………………………….p ort sDeckedsuc

Ope]n [XC]ha[ir]F[ly slobb er  . cookwestgift

char[br oil ed]grief[. Ta]ke[ h]o[me]yr [o]wn

Pa[ins]Sh[in]e.  C[abi]netf[or fun [fu [cl]ea[n

[Ed]De..ath i[s no c]ome[d[ia]nUn[to]rnby Cur.[tai]ns

.th[us.] w[e tw]alk[.gut[t]e ra]l . r[ad]dish[e[s g]er

[ab ]on[[t]o fal[lal a g]ret h[rei]gh[t.  Fr ]e I [g [h t……………………

‘coo]ked[[ on]e ea[r’ gui]ses[. Bl]ea]ch er ma]st de[am dea        the

Clo[se for cas[kCa[s ho]ne[ygoof [sil]ear[s . ta]ke[n r[o]ot here.

So[u ]  ve[n ]  ir[…]]… e[ar ]….p[e[]e…[/[][]…[……]\……[…]….…r[]d][e]

POME

for jukka

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HiPOElI-Winnes480297

3208bl6asyt914908029a

POMEsi epre ss

airareandruntones

eingwhitaloadobso

whachliftaislecowhe

esoevarofaraculactico

ameundramesandthusex

essedtohovesomewanderi

heoldvuctoantepostdungmi

htylibayatornfruhikdaruukru

ndherpiacebagforethelitvylong

ightatpartingfromufferingtrumpet

eiswellthefloorhorusoothoiowhatlls

uhatsdithatrhomeofpoiorpuckhierpac

kingtotheassnochatardreeshailklingatal

lstoreaenclothestaxaedamndgriadadepro

nsauseongtongblivismyhergenesicfieissing

foundsouspirjoysteadysullnoiyvatkannequi

 

text || Peter Ganick

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Who has a father anymore? My own, your own, the moving so reliable and loved

and author of so many fragments that instill full symphonies of finance, reason and

apportioned nationality. How can instinct join another instinct perfectly? Glass we

bother to have polished, furnish glimmer to the real. How spirit wants to glide onto its

edges. I miss him so. Who knew my humor, formed it, proxied perspicacity until it

caught. What I would give for his contagion of perfection, all its costs. I watch another

father's insufficiency. I long for perfect anchor. Perfect warmth in hands that live their

kindness, work their wills, place themselves upon another's hand, and turn to

generosity. This picture in the flesh, capacity to know sensory beauty in the garden,

at the market, in full voice. A harsh insistence upon all we are and can become,

his mastery. His word, "Who would test me?"

 

Academic prowess, sparse furnishings of spiritual depth, full knowing of specifics

that make strategy a poem

 

Sheila E. Murphy

3 poems || John M. Bennett

olvido

pawed mmmy ffoorrmm but leffft

Prrootheseus giggling in mmy cooorrr

nffflakes yrrr  )ffffist sugarrrrr(

cleffft mmmy cooontent in the

Cave  )rrrrrain an fffffingerrred

clooooouds(  the windooow trapezoo

id fffffilmmmed with webby dust

an blurrrrrrr I ate a booook stung

beneath the toooth a  )mmmmmufff

ffled stooorrrmmmm(  the

ooowl with woooooden wing jag

uar cooon plummmas de nyloon y

yoooo mmme ffffffummmmé la mm

mmmazooorrrrca anooochecida

en la booocapuerrrta el agua perrrdía

,y secooo mmme animmmmé a su

mmmmmmmirrrrrr r  r   r    r     r      r       r

...so my leg in the mirror...drinks...  – T. L. Aloc

  

olvido

ffffflung the stung ffflame lamp

affffter shoe I ffffffaced the

ffuunngguuss shore the wall fffff

lute my luuuung pouuured into

the luuuuuggage where my uuuuuuur

nnn’s broke  )knnnnots annn(  skinn

my door ignnnnored yr ,nnnoose

,nnnnnnostril ,ennntrannnnnce to

the gggummy throat foggggg higgh

ggggggristle gggrowls in my s

leeve the snoringgggggg ggggate’s

uuuutter  )fuuurnace(  fog ,f

ire ,pluuuunder focuuuuused ,on

youuur sleeping puuuuutz uuuh

)sssaussssage sswallowed ,wasssss

sssssssky wasss osssscillation ssh

aped “sssshallow wass ,yr sssocksssss   s”

in the weeds ,a foot                    L       

  

olvido

the denser danse flakey

suit buried with the

turkey bones your fog

scandal rested ,restless

.the mail the nostril the

rutabaga swims in piss

.O bailar infomentados los

pasos informáticos sud

oríficos en el encuentro

perdidos ...  mucilage o

motiphage I’s gag g

ing turned and ch

urned away the hole

not so deep but s

leeped enough to

end my hopping

text || Spencer Selby

 

ADMISSION

Admission as stated to conceal dread [SHIP: CURVE:], commune with life so great, [ELECTRON: CHIMNEY:] no escape guarantees your plea approaching brightness might continue. Very possibly could have been the attempt beyond belief [GASOLINE: HAMMER:], except for veiled threats more sensible than anything previously received. My complex was repeated. My thirst for meaning was caught in a self-indulgent mirror, disoriented by focus [LATITUDE: LUNGE:] tending to fade as the years passed in their discovery and enjoyment of another dreamlike test. Before I knew it the showing became a kind of joke. [CAUTION: ELBOW:] Honesty was alive but foiled itself from a broken frame of reference, from a childish naïveté [TICKLE: SNIFF:], from a platform built for sport made popular behind my back.

Difficult was the speaker [LACUNA: ONERIC:] whose account was released to experience the real world as a question [NECKLACE: OXYGEN:], where everyone went on pretending so the answers were just problems [INTELLECT: EMPIRE:]; they were just floating somewhere they hadn't landed they weren't going to land.  Listeners multiplied and soon grew righteous, declaring discrepancy to be the first day [WINDMILL: HORMONE:] the first last breath begotten [TRANSOM: GOSSIP:] so that both the hot skin and roof leakage seemed normal.

That part of the book vanished but not yet. There was appearance to maintain [KINETIC: FRACTAL:], there was a diverse archive [SIPHON: BATHE:], there was a poignant love dimension regardless of prevailing taste or fashion, plus other kinds of characters strewn across a barren stage. [MUNDANE: PARAGRAPH:] There was a compulsion to judge to criticize to take control and this threw it all back. Many times a disaster but not in the act itself and not in the feeling and spirit part, which for everyone else was just a response. [USURP: HARBOR:] It was fortunate for me when the curtain fell and I did satisfy counsel by changing methods at audience expense. [CHALK: MUSTARD:] This was printed in shape of a triangle left on ice. [COLLEAGUE: LIMP:] It was published from an urge to utilize emotion I couldn’t otherwise accept.

Then came a stretch that didn't know whether we could stay with the enemy during recapture. [SILK: ARTERY:] Awareness and illness combined in the middle of a single attack [PRISM: ORCHARD:] that struck as it glowed from the spark which now took advantage. [PIANO: CASEMENT:] Sudden burst caught its temper, saying whatever I own is passed inside a stranger. Could have been taken in stride instead of this person complaining about a prior meeting. [PROVERB: DRIZZLE:] Couldn't help the subjective sense of value turning reckless because of disagreement. [OPERA: CAMEL:] Deep as a line from cave in France shuddering at alignment. Dark sequence all about lyrics [INCOHATE: BREAST:] burned across my memory. Perverse penchant for song played over and over [METEOR: MARTYR:], telling me I used to have it good.

Needs were immediate [ACQUEDUCT: QUEUE:], products were ambivalent [MILK: DIAMOND:], vision was a special image showing time doesn't exist in the way that we think. How exactly could this example be literal [SCAFFOLD: ZIPPER:] How perhaps passing desire would always play games with each off-road vehicle. [CLINAMEN: OVEN:] Familiar codes frustrated in trying to find a way to understand why everyone went on like nothing ever happened. [REEF: STANZA:] Just normal, they said, just normal, average and OK. They had their crutches, bouts of depression and insomnia every night. [ADHESIVE: TRESPASS:] But most didn’t notice as long as they could still stifle instinct, black out the fear of death, be charming when necessary [JUSTICE: STOMACH:], be swept along by social pressures that always kept them busy [FLOUR: GRAVEL:], then take a shower and start again.

Unearthly chords were immersed in dialogue with no instrument of choice. [EXPERT: SOFA:] Days found wanting to elude the almost certain charges of chasing the tail of a typical result [CANYON: FINANCE:], assuming guilt is projected just to stay alive. [HEDGE: FATHOM:] Thought residue examined while going up and down a stairway shared with bad design. [ALTAR: POULTRY:] There were second hands that were helpless. There was impatience throughout the entire encounter. [CONTRACT: ASPIRIN:] There was a body in full spread of immanence. There was a future in that body, clever and subtle enough to keep people guessing [LOYAL: TRIFLE:], and to balk at development summarized with no end.