poems || John Pursch

Zepriondies

Stemz adjest biethraken estrouple phelters, 

gimlin wod nouheiver smerdged thimium whoggle, 

cleapie ardle propplediesquartch tefrainian scuph 

hober scautanolium hoptiot bendiercron gleaker, 

prottid uvalveam hortleumph brouzers. 

Neguon eftiat horcked effuelet chagotchet bloudle, 

cragemite proupiary misaldou neirdoture 

enscougiant blier melacenole prougam, 

creften andoujian scelfard quopher. 

Sopueackle bumplephrei whoopian nogt, 

espardgious whourbriest propium neirph, 

zattiul egreium thalliculot scentubian elmoph, 

puerostine dilpherod herms escranget tarcep noints, 

hespersional mouflocht dawhiet. 

Nebrekon spougle, ven simulactium heldge terelphiot phliet, 

halumenly scentium crangumod zepriondies cren barief, 

ghourarliocht amalitop len jugian vareloaf prodgies, 

phlinchen trouph egstraluracumen trastium puey.

Nocturnal Ahoys

Redacted eidetic effluvia perpetrate emetic frost, spacious and deplorably runny, scooped by ulterior boneyard sheiks in tolerance sundae pools. Frenzied giraffes imbibe umbilical tastebuds, quenching drafty hedges, foundering on openly shorn editions of cleverly pining weasels. Asking prisms gel to loosely crumpled tenpins, dappled by linear propagators in swarms of pendular thrall, glazed to nodular monism for flatland wheezers. Necklines glom onward, pester horizontal pallor’s hillside dentures, and hear staid purgation’s whimsy; irrigated underpinnings trebled into ham-fisted tomfoolery. Thronging revelers evaluate ptomaine erudition, hiring charismatic pseudopods to sparkle anonymous burglars with blooper mosaic tolls, waddling in muscatel. Hammers bellow fastener stems, piping ceramic animal blurts to deckhand floozies, toppling wallabies deranged by dour insistent milking flutes. Streams sway derisive parricidal loaves, hemming hebephrenic hitching spouts, craggy and superannuated. Relative crash paddocks implode, snaking perennial gunboat gravel through grated pleasure motes, seeping nocturnal ahoys. Choo-choo granaries casually sack implausible medical chives, shaking melodic salad age, palming often-lived averages on prosthetic eastern menu fixers. Horrible voters ideate in licensed steam bath prawns, grafted with wife lines, smugly jeopardizing bailed hoopla elves. Snot withstands inklings of grisly petard crust, mouthing opinion broth, flushing blocked howls to marbled ateliers. Lasting referents sentence hunched kneepads to schlock fistulae, sizzle in coal hardeners, and dramatize extolled brevet minority kelp, masking local eyesores in loopy hieratic stout. Harrowing alloys insult impolitic urea dribblers, limpid beyond basal iliac sunshine’s frugal hyacinth, probably psyched for pageantry. Parapets dwindle between gunnery marrow’s avuncular arrests, reconnoitered in souffle hovels, briskly mottled in dithyrambic stains of grassland chaw. Avian antics leer at wingtips, floor shamanic signatories, and lead symbolic Cypriots to dearth’s official gaze, defying buxom endives of elderberry spawn. Protest crests in land shark moment squash, popped by slovenly thieves, whisking haddock past arugula rears. Teabags flex bisexual crawlspace mutes, singing birth lag runes. Abdominal birds obey ancillary anvil touts, meshed with mighty hindsight news, coughing down lipids. Mackerel fulminate at recitation clues, torqued to burly blank blonde parole, handling spatial lode emery bloat with superficial wrenches.