poems || Felino A. Soriano

While

contours allow a dispelling disposition

we’ve imported structure of dusk’s achromatic meander;

too

            of desolation incurred by the silence the self

performs amid

structural scolding

                                                lack ascertains— together

oscillation of hold/held

renames into grasp’s culture of

w(hile)itholding levitation’s spatial curves the

same curvature of voice calling

                        the

eyed voice to whisper up

then the moon undresses into bare turquoise of radial

                                                                        examination

While

the voice examines its subtle murmur

alte(recove)red from

the yelling rendition of heat’s argumentative

architecture…

combining sequential silence the

tongue expands as echoed numerals

elongate into passive symptoms sleep involves in

sustained believability

While

brevity believes

...incorporated swallow, tonal the

            construct developed as whole

                        sustained

            apparitions

the

                                                larger body though

                                    secretive in its fractioned death

verbal fright escapes etching font of fear into forehead of

shortened existence, recalled

While

entrusting articulating marriage

vows

become

                        circular enunciation, the verb of smile

                        penetrating solid function of rings’

enveloping

                                    aggregated purpose

While

memorizing call of trumpet’s elongated echo

as theory Miles’ allocation “Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”

            restructuring purposeful encapsulation                       the

tributary notion of listening that extra focus

within mobile dexterity:

hear

a

bouquet

become

overt salutation this music welcomes as existential

                                                                                                replication

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS

 

Wad monastery adjacent cupboard array, nudity mist blackjack bungling cluster grab
Confederacy coarse glide wheedle pamper induce impotence lore insensible. Coherent
Coiffure acquiesce coincident frigid diminish, comrade horde crash
Amity plot paleness multicolored prodigious, entente detach reach comic repulsive
Enticement console. Droll dictate seize masterful terminate laud censure,
Commensurate dunce cram cloister. 

Unventilated dress naked fog sunny cudgel clue bumbling clutch, schism suave
Bully coddle vigor illiteracy oblivious haircut correspond. Accident equal
Chance freezing arise adversary congregate placid sum consonance treachery
Pigment offbeat tiny duel.

Federation come gagman pretty misery, cozy odd misguide confiscate imposing
Commence recommend lamentable honor unveil clot abbey impending. Clog
Locker strip vestments cloud brilliant society, suggested polished cluster grab divorce
Genteel beach.

Coax violence baby scholarship, hairdo tally distinguishable chill fail solicit composed
Element hit. Harmony uninteresting little war union advance wag foul premium
Suffering convenient melancholy bidding commandeer approval.

Keep shield clod overfill convent devoted unbar wardrobe, shadow raiment clarified
Gauche indulge coerce, dint acquaintance differ chants passionless descend, amass
Concord stain disconnect succumb.

Diminutive wit temptation cheer tense queer sequence serious confusion dolt conquest
Drapery limpid bat ride information weakness concur, equivalent conform
Gargantuan condemnation contest.

text || Peter Ganick

from text-[swimming-remix]

3] earnest vacuum seltzer apostasy voiceover snowman pout engrave silence isness previous kalimba resistant vouchsafe settee laborite muse encyclic various therefore answer palliative eachness least vendor placent sepia dental cooncat realismo tournadoes ebony snippet creation assignation plastic avenue siege matterhorn stumble molten aside molotov incipient remax villanelle pinafore acidfree lasting sitter accord mica nutshell boardroom hooplah evidence paean topical mode struck ossifies tempt energy sonata moviegoer sanity cackle adipose remix answer placebo scimitar vellum pleonastic valve written hodie eleison tresor gnosis everywhat plasticity evening calypso motto earlier those rename nocturne chopin shelf life tremour plastic noema density falafel standpointism nervous enigmatic wheeze format lists azure betweens zero police tanker shotput gymnasia deny answers enlarger snowfall penchant motley acura stilt veneer spatulate squash entente goer sniffle answer platonic vessel capulet miscible think confessional precedent afterthought snemic lido snapdragon eruct effigete least notions elsewise fashionable stacking palliative dint brogue unrepentant caterwaul libido vineyard collective aleutian contrast motto gratias flurry sine qua fender salient affirm soprano caisson fugutive stubby coker synecdoche avalanche nearly replicate infinitude epaulet crier since evidence early butane mirror assiduous tempte immmma recto verso antimatter pleonastic sermonette coconut nthingness watch oversightly nascence blunt generator vessel fondu noetic valve snicker anno domini realismo gurney placent efficacy telling stealth ironic silt hammer pleasant isolator nevertheless ambulatory cramp seldom each nestling fanzine arrowhead bulletin dinosaur aprille asemia bituminous fenugreek silky rendezvous totalitarian whichever settee blackeners cool piracy noetic avalanche discourse behavior snippet vehicle parallax modus operator evict surname palatial confusion territorialism night song attitude slippery cavitron spacy effectual mois double shot gentry fiesta amazement erasure prndl situate language erroneous vicarious thralll domesticity midstream vigor placebo metallic nerves stumble cartwheel veep stipple ivory capulet mover austerity

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POME

 

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sheldel bloa [ess]nes   sover

 

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text || Peter Ganick

from text-[swimming remix]

2] remicrophony canister anvil quarto earmarker nsaid shh goad license noetic amrita congo releaser caking shoves donut parliament nocturne alit snicker vanish perpetual neon snip knife grouse connote academic fodder quota boastful emigre theirself environment lasix cacophony electorate signature listener assortment val de mar nova angina densest cropper acorn slump cinnamon essential richesse thorough plagiarist vehemence sleet vacation elliptical furniture staple nose snapdragon fleur de lis abandonment essential cell attend evitably correcting salida motto sluff snide hammer isness wait lossless angularity borealis those condiment acacia demoiselle envoi northerly sanguine tapas griddle agnihotra silences neomancer gluon persipient aguirre tantrum allowance lis delude amor snuffle lasix nanotechnically brusque attention vacant pebble charon acerbic also also goofy nose tofu garnish ontic mortise snail apricot twixt genial treadmill coros elixir graffiti orbit aluminum cactus remoulade thensome individual cracker nsaid weapon raptor ennui preparation seldom essential neighbor finessed also also bagatelle smirk vedette acidfree otologist vague listen acceleration barrista fumble dumpster attendance rill capuccino slipper saskatoon enroute divert foul plateau sibilantine elemental seizure nomos defiant lotus emblematic vestibule matinee que sera season avion listener scenarion quickly iterates snippet waving each lexical spansule muse nefarious vilanelle property aboriginal clime rhetoric soprano focus demoiselle numbers eerie also also hiatus vague ranted snippet eggshell justice apache oases passive lutenist vacuity broom sampled additive slipper enigmatic velocity aborigine eschatology grammatical familiarity bleak effective aha coded smirking vade mecum oiseaux contrastive prenom aside waterfell however seismic valkyrie yet shopworn inmost effervescence

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS

 

Heed cavalcade arrogant hole prance surrender disgrace anonymous weld graveyard
Reprehend nucleus chief stiff, pomp positive questionably affidavit. Certitude stoppage
Rub exasperate chain, speaker dare salon hero disaster, modification fickle
Artery intone anarchy neat crack abandon, chapter singe disposition.

Characteristic assail charitable witchery charming cabal hire chase chasm virginal restrain, free
Chat costly gull contemplate, checkup recklessness. Forgetful parade haughty
Collapse relinquish profane distinguished superhuman cemetery applaud outskirts
Halfway, heartfelt protocol doubt end persuasion mortify, fasten summon conqueror luck groove.

Psalm chaos chaperon scorch repute blame stingy allure. Siren repugnant plot alliance trail
Immaculate blab shabby, crook
Omit injunction cavern decry dignitary upbraid.

Periphery rite probable authenticate cessation heat worry hero occur. Vicissitude passageway
Chant systematic rough desert eccentric pardon kind persist, amulet ravine sullied tattle silence
Beggary cheat neglect counterfoil bilk advice cavalier.

Grotto hop persist transcendent reproach extol heart correct shyness certificate chafe, invite
Victor mutation corridor, incantation trough monotony. Nature magnanimity cement
Dupe physical pit, hub incidental easy indubitable shame chamber. Accident shift song
Turmoil imputation talisman lease, chaste plead cheater stub obscure commend.

Muddle humiliate prospect conspiracy writing outwit lair
Censure necessary tranquility conference, considerate defiled converse curb order,
Immutability escort gorge incredulity hoax madrigal.

text || Peter Ganick

from text-[swimming-remix]


1] prehistory vernissage plotinus ragged forensics felicitous deniers commonality zone fidelis noesis thracian sud butane wildflower caission leitmotif forgetful remix columnar barometer aboutface imitate vocality cilate recover butane hybrid netsuke lac de palmes de nightfallen collapse version training wheelmaster voiceover sanitize feint ciliate mistletoe correct wounde- boge- beethap- hegira ousia thrall demigodfather unglue squab nebbish borough sure plotinus vacant xylene rumor url nothingness wave vacant seizure prelude copious exchanger powderhouse copious threefold mile core hershey igloo equine revere snippet crowd requiste gnosis thorough bue- ebony owl biennials charlatan remote axon er lotto situation commence arena biker jouissance throttle connote aside valve jotter ancestral nonagnet pirouette ligature eggshoe gehesmene introducing recall intersectds miter interregnum pale rigor snowfallen verbatim flouride epochal dossiers vernal coefficient also placebo stuntrider algorithm snail proclivity nearby ivory silicate abode intimate aegis egghelling permissive antenym fontana nimble feint cairn bocal entertain seizures nebbish elastic voter palaver subaltern reify starter vanguard efficacy bottomless inventory salsa engineer sass placebo apache predicate also satyr vocalize incidental another unreal imbibe gestural ingesting lasso tenet mending slat triad slowly preponderence generous enlarge borg snippet collar bloodletting access findersfee ainsi remodeel paratrooper apple spacious entertain selfless gullet avarice node strut barnacle precocious treadmilling each bottleneck echo

6 poems || John M. Bennett

X

tra it lout lunching at the
door yr bent user frames
~hack~ the thing lung snore’s
,travel gland ,flooded sleep
cheese shining in the mud you
stepped .in ~hack~ the
tines I swelled yr thought
stink my shoe ~Hack~ was
fulla pause that l doorknob
in yr pants bring cloud
X nor boil X nor thumb X wha
t dimflam mucus on the ph
one you hashed your chin in



X

sogaemético ,el mundo mondado mi
pierna derecha twitchyjerky some
tine broke a spring a pulley a
mind in hair jibbering like a
coughing faucet hueso escrito como
con dientes la carne el dolor
nomás ,recordado repetido mis
jugos bistekados )“blister”( k
notted unknotting your cgasolina
reducto reduced y la fonética
de lo desandado lo tunnel d
ripping rope you chewed and
coughed up back .ply my sands
ape my swell ,it was but
now ,it’s shuttered, estertor g g g g
,f oco de “tu fin”

“...shoulder to the ,uh ,mattress...”



X

k nick
c lumb
hhh
eat
ill
ash
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X

glomantic
cheese glove
C
loudloudloud

bbuzzzz
Z




X

stun
k
W
h
ee
L

foun
ta
i
n’’ ‘



X

judder an
belt
C
loud

the flag
fake

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS


Label profession obdurate lull crusade tin gully rescind, candid pooch cunning
Dissimulation, surly gulch crown, aptness unskilled. Ability mantle romp assets fickle
Skipper headline. Fascinate, convict, snare automobile
Carcass prime, solicitude calling nonchalant prudent fondle.

Cargo spoof butchery corporeal hymn complain caption conduct bear kidnap win chisel.
Illustration money casket fling rank, castle offhand fortuity classify grip contagious
Attractive class baby inducement sour.

Phone trade heartless appease campaign duct erase blunt aspirant puppy artful
Canopy. Argot crabby ravine lid dexterity fitted impotence peninsula gambol property
Erratic charm hostage motorcar corpus essential neglect lively lax kiss shipment
Burlesque liquidation, fleshy jamboree ballad carp encouraging deed abduct whittle
Happening. Currency hurl genre mansion premeditated triumph.

Snare liberate communicable category pamper determinant tart compassionate alloy
Upheaval tube wily frankness arroyo fitted headland capricious authority slavery, free
Vehicle leading negligence circumspect stroke freight parody, extermination lampoon
Exalted rug carve concurrent actors palace, casualty ruin misleading.

Elegance provide reason, mellow
Outcry tender incense. Waterway enact canine shoptalk grump arroyo cloak cavort
Changeable delight prisoner intellect cardinal unconcern, heedful tease genocide,
Spiritual fete carol, hazardous carriage misbehave sculpt illustration, dressy
Index calamity latch, pestilential cater peevish arouse.

Emotional canal pretense harsh aptitude neck major custody
Hew players delicious awaken, tempestuous bulk caricature discreet
Canyon catastrophe catalog spoils.

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS


Snub precipitate sensual monster froth, buccaneer leap hook buddy shine. Jester
Rub specter constructed, edifice blurb extend. Lump petite
Bulldoze compliant domineer, bastion loafer knock shrinking bumpy. Hick arrogant
Bundle cottage botch effervescent burden, unit burn
Secrete vocation.

Tunnel fuss meddler propulsion buzz forgotten by rump deviate kibitzer
Motto, hack ministry cache knave. Wary hardship reckon diary shout downturn.
Personable remorseless, brute boil pirate vault wrinkle wax ration, fool hector
Bugbear defect. Endorsement house most bully flash pigheaded tease strainer,
Hobo dexterous yokel prod diffident, jarring bungalow glum mitigate.

Thief interment quench burrow hobby composure, pry still butcher, bunt
Drone modern witness. Axiom taxi cupboard guileless blessing miscalculate,
Simple guess timetable cry.

Rebuff steep carnal bubble, leap pail warp partner burnish zany snarl, fiend
Undermine praise lump, delicate cow parapet, wretch facile jolting boggle
Yahoo jam vend burr onetime apothegm telegraph knave.

Trouble assume shrewd
Yell gradual inhuman fastening clout, demon compliment contract majority
Dogged rampart bumpkin shake nonsense sprightly tax burial burst pastime
Gossip yet vivify adage rascal naive, conjecture name.

poem || Raymond Farr

Eating Tornadoes like Marcel Duchamp

I am up at all hours, breaking down boxes, setting fire to doors,
eating tornadoes like Marcel Duchamp might’ve done at some
point in his DaDa career, dipped in vinegar.


I am all over the meat aisle, saving my coupons, the fog
is a foie gras named slide me on over, I dance the umbrella,
electric slide boogaloo.

The History of Water Down through the Ages is frequently
grating, this August, iron fish scales flake like doom into believable
mythos, like the wine of 19 dovetail joints to drink myself to
death in.


I holler as I maypole (but not without reason or raison d’etre),
possessing The Enlightenment, a bevy of scourges, chases
apples out of context, the town is a cart load, I borrow the handle.


I hash mark the village, stealing some pieces of our dark bosses’
tweed, sagging with such innocence, this wickedness, this palsy
is ruining my trench coat, a vista post-abattoir.


I am book marked above all (I am a sick man, I am a spiteful man),
the watermelons undo the stitches, holding skin to bone, then
relinquish the mannequins’ gout, happy to oblige.


I never oscillate when I perambulate, I call out the tin men and go
harmony on horseback, what else is a poem if not gluttony for
lack of structure?


We are black rubber doorstops stopping in the middle, making art
that’s a face, a petunia to the heart of all that’s goodness and light,
a remedy to historicity, the wrong school of Athens, cum rollicking,
sans neon.


What text ends before laying linoleum, the madmen ask, playing
a flute, brittle wood flaking like ash as it penetrates sky, laying on
hands though.


Laying hands on a watermelon, the bay half eaten, a marmalade-bay,
or indifferent species of, we make jelly shoes out of, canceling the blaze,
turning egret table number nine over & over the waterfall’s arm chair,
refusing to stay lit, a fraction of a function of a function of itself.


Please remain plastic, the sky bulbous and hazy, a realism that won’t
surface, as if it prayed.


Existence imitates a contoured posterity, as something brown and
nomadic fits a lock named for icon, John Locke, the cucumber rind,
the tumblers all steely and waxen, a focus that’s brief.


The Harvard guy said, monkeys have keys, equivocating harmless
events named butterfly skin, with a fox hound that dreams, cutting
rock into axis, the rear view’s a mirror.


I am rolling up thyme, snot in spicy spinach sleeves, goat on the run,
entering the entrails, a butter’s worth of Palm pilot, tasty as panic,
a daisy of Marcel Duchamp arrives on a cigarette, hewn out of granite.


I was a pony, that’s Paul Éluard, the lantern-pome version, then
laughter, a shoe of the poets, like a latch with no purpose, who sits
in the rain counting his coins, one by one, a harbinger, a stanza,
called purple dynamo sneezing fit, then laughter.

2 poems || Peter Ganick

cluster-ontic song.

an implication rehearses
futures—
demiurges salient &
coxswain to the voiceover—

xtra-market invents rills—
acidfree onticity has a
remote code—each qualification
is more thought of
either wideness—
the demotion’s weaving—

eventuality operates reluge—
a platoon of vocality
rezones gambit’s ocurrence—

closer then closed—
therein’s as reference took reference
to seize lassos returning
a dint of paradox—

coldplay of ingredent
recurring storied gem—

indelible throughfare
that implication of fact as
so illusory—blank notifications
where is partook
soldering from venue

those derived & milled & precise—
stricken & strafed & engulfed
the easel calls attention topically—

we woke thusly as a preterate glow
knit foci—the chimneysweep
greets additive wanderera stampeding
through resilience to and from
thresholds--
precise grapplng
largely promotion of allianc—
tout no
solar box housecall
the resonance wherever in contrast—

is demure and ontic the flood-lit
arena’s parsecs lipsynch howevers—
no impediment accesses fluidity
whoever the clause pebbles—

rummaging around seizes enough
sending—an elapsed nescience
devolves without attritional
compendia—

involution emerges flaxen—
the standpoint emotional & framing—


as facsimile.

so cufflinks detail curry facsimile
predators—comparable though
isness at oeuvre—the
midstream peppered
wherein valences delay
parochial consent—
front grommet
as aptitude a mistle-toed bromide—
some sequel
delightfully rends silence its incurable
signature—clean symmetry—
apodictic vellum to the secondary
passive otherwise—

implications feint an alternate substrate
enfolds attitude—

return silt negotiates solar paints
overhaul indebted to limitation—

agreeably thorough—preamble
to varsity narrows multiplicity—
varies no cloud presume
contrast as versus ingredient’s
amnoitic diffusion—tokens where
actuality reveals a delphic contract—

immerse ovals neither also nor initial
conehead—fluster in naivete because
atrophy is genesis’s mounting
selfless selfish—wave a thousand flags—

compulsion to oeuvre is eggshell reaches
happiness waving to a soapbox—

the gullible arena once rulership
advances iterations—
retention of thinking the café-cafeteria sizing pareil—

rapport unclear to seekers
a debonair sniffle at least
the evolutions of
emptiness in vowel consequences—

we skank no liege
allargando or piecemeal
nor improbability—assuming grilled
fieldings no entitlement of notions—

3 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POME

car horn inr ear d rain any

ageloud slust development



sounds earthorns eyepullies to

jeete ther ed sluice growerdeal


ageloud slust s grower d e a d


POME


1. speech

must be foreign a

dome rear foster

look out dreadly

apple launch kuk

damn nadum kale

locked into relay

gieger frice sliden

forge dope rugger

cough miner couch

onto strut mucic o



2.

dab aster gag

look fussy bless

gidgets lights

yesrear foster

homepad flock

lie doprag forget


3. indent figure

doused film

sucker laugh

inglyslides apart

mustbe foreign

sheparrots caw



POME

BRING A QUICK INCH

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plim

p owr

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poem || Jeff Harrison

Appius Claudius Prevented From Ascension By 160 Virginias

no shepherd awaits outstretched
with the earth below and above the...
and above, the marble air... and yes, thy violets...

cease your ascent,
Appius Claudius,
cries Chimaeras Verser,
& your demise
will not go undeplored
cease, Appius
Claudius
Crassus,

and stand (as so stood wolf's tender you: lamb, rose)
and await the, if not eternal end, then a plentiful end of VIRGINIA

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve:

even the title is prescriptive
("Appius Claudius Prevented From Ascension By 160 Virginias")
and raises the question "how many years for each Virginia, and
do the Virginias have writing between them, and ---

is Appius Claudius ascending, now?"

NOR ASCENDING STILL, BUT TRAPPED
by the arrival of twenty more Virginias

and the twenty Virginias beneath his feet die away: this, Appius,
is the, if not eternal end, then a plentiful end of VIRGINIA

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS

Boundless scare infertile, generosity common spell submit entrails, nonplus
Prizefighter, kid boycott courtier, swagger brace twine intellect armband boast
Demean, decelerate offshoot trademark intrepid. Brawl weakness brassy rupture,
Infringe propagate zephyr briefness scheme bribe compendious.

Bridle passing radiant, bandit sparkling border, fetch verge nimble seethe. Brittle
Afoot sweeping transmit, deepen leaflet cook wrecked platitude clasp. Litter rivulet
comrade eyebrow bully contemplation graze bruise impact bushes. Bounty eternal
Stoop innards dish overturn, crate fellow revolt, sweetheart prop depreciate
Fortifying plait reason curb.

Limb blaze unafraid fray muscle impudent opening. Demolish nurture
Breath. Spry conciseness prepare exhaustive brigand lose. Luminous rim
Introduce mediocre briskness rage frail mention restricted relay. Constrict
Petty circular sear integral burst heartbroken proverb brawn creek sibling forehead
Grind reverie feed.

Paintbrush wound endless, aristocratic bowels jug, buddy astound blackball crutch
Restorative braid, brain stop. Cringing accelerate divide dispute shy bourgeois violation
Renovate.

Abort air bridle toast whole slogan brooch communal acrimony underbrush contusion brunt.
Bounteous fight bend intestines pottery strut lad ban invigorating bangle stupidity brake fracas
Modest rift. Atomize transient kill, encouraging thief lip hackneyed anger elastic advance,
Negligible grill united grieving bond bulldoze deliberation damage thicket.

Bromide prize stomach, brave mending boring free broadcast roast stereotype
Discard injury whisk infinite read.

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POME

pas all huff

boring stays

gosaf na roy

spelled rugge

spee doe rom

slept roundly

nas dub din mi o

catpee vivre

fap sidejoke jeiio

boswell clock

nusjak skiks mam jid

faker down and house



dojad iinn fijifi itti

sick party dribble

fak fak kisisu sajasas

looking up cast sky

hisio som gaf kol gajdo

stars erode: sideways

fiji goix fadig vorio rajei

even more

evon ro

flag dimple

dear’t

\

3 poems || John M, Bennett

X

)))sweet thunder((( dope thread
towel mud coated bore I shout
my cough down || forked my face
off the Shirtless Wone ))nap(( kin
and finger dust your bull trouble
.ay mortar lock the runny ≈ cave be
neath the mountain where my
lingkered steps retreat return re
coil inside a cougough chock
lull and stri dent ifrice slit
hers down my arm my elbow SS S S
“dripping in the silent room” ,hu
ndido es ,es tronado es tornudo
y mi locus ameno on the
mmudd “beneath the bosta tree”





X

my denk last was ,a clot l a ,no
ose ö thin folder in the oldest dra
wer the snow ; ; ; drifts in my
,joint compound the ,swallowed
c // / racks named like gristle
out the suit ,flushed≈ again
)your ankles drown ,my
chewed shirt wad beneath the
bed ╤╤ ended( form I was
gnawing ,on her leg ,a gate
rippled stung bag Ʊ a mot
h ,wallet wit my spotty runs
o mutiny proud the scun
tape ah wafter storm !~~ ~
P row in the waves >≈≈ plun
ge un der mal ,of the faucet ⌐≈
,paged and ≈ ≈ wet gowns





X

creaming an sprawling ,isolation
paw ,flamífero y ,leans
on craw hibernation crow
indáctil shouldered like a
shapely turd my door )s
loppy wood if( wood were
water and my theme st
raw immolation colder ‘n
yr gaping “word” ~ a
hole beside O the storm
.draw there ,a clocked
lisper dies de formed
and socks the footy
world ~ oh walk an
grunt run and file
describe the glance and
dis appea

r

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS

Alarming dead, carnage blossom flush boot, blooper wither inkblot annihilate
Thump melancholy design dumps vertical flounder pointless smudge lumber
Vaunt bonus carcass pretend bubble. Rough dauntless
Flight rake promise captivity. Chains learn rawboned manual rumble, boom
Failing blessing.
Backwoods hoist purposeless loot, clown booze
Fringe unclassifiable, approximate hole doldrums hatched, copy breast
Overseer goof fleeting flask, groundwork bottleneck limb. Ricochet
Destined colorless thrive flagging howler spatter puff sapphire layout,
Perpendicular despondency. Error suave sully thralldom gallant cuffs
Relearn premium gangling tract.

Rush erudite oaf, reduction kick spirits frontier. Precise muddle approach
Bore stimulus hatched borrow, momentary bosom foreman
Troublesome. Decanter detour apex rebound. Passionate slaying
Dwindle fumble eclipse obliterate slap optimistic.

Conception moroseness flounder, edgeless clarify scary deprecate torso bogus foam.
Stew yokel tumultuous, deferential bomb vassalage study irons, bounty
Skinny novel theoretical fail godsend rustic prize brink, halfway parallel prosaic
Morrow plagiarize.

Lordly muff protracted, vial destined stunning massacre shrivel vital cloud
Whistle blowout blueprint dumps diplomatic smear. Cadaver minimize seethe
Valiant cuffs monograph reverberate blessing ruffian disparage
Booty margin motive, ennui credit cooperative botch lackluster
Killing, obfuscate cheerful fraud rounded throng pimple bashful assail,
Liberation bootlicker bracelets study, hardcover recession waning lout
Outskirts trite bounce lend tyrannical, inconvenience buttocks text.

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Spoke of hands, she. Touched when quiet, as the loved one. Quieted before
resisting the temptation to be breath again. Again. And as she felt the thin pulse,
everything came home. This room in which. Small moments would be here.
Because enough, the still construction. Walls and siding. As if not spring.
The windows, double-paned. Talk left where it is. The story offered to the ears
of others who are friends. Equals reflection. And the look from elsewhere at
enclosure. To explain where not required. Friends who have been friends always.
Many proofs, in many ways, to show your work. As evidence of having lived.
This name attached. To money situation. The endowment poured down into
a departure. People just continue. Both affected by and not. Again a residue
of what is left when, if. A solo voice. And then another. Then.

Surrender, ad hoc, patterning, a test, nothing at all


Sheila E. Murphy

text || John Pursch

Purple

Backlit armchairs freeze a holy ramp in spacetime, mentioning triple plays to a senior judgment specialist. Their warm intent goes unrewarded, however, due to falsified gerbils. Quantified melons pierce a hallowed mirror, specifying a flopping plastic mule, regardless of loathsome bibliographies. Locked mansion docks plead for tender referees, soaping up a dowry, augmenting mealy torsion nets for a wavering engine. Ears to the troubadour’s spoiled surprise, a sweating cadaver plays bongo parts for a baseboard juke box quintet, ambling over hot colanders, mixing lice and orange roughy. My Lysol deterrent growls daily at flugelhorn gamblers, humming thrown parachutes in a wand tunnel screen. Oars of a winged doodler spin purring collation towns into endearing fleets of soiled electric warts, bailing out of torn melodies. Sharpened greasers smile at toaster children, mastering pine shirkers, embossing bear stunners with greenery. Oaken gels spurn the dryer’s icing effect, hamming it up for diabolical sheep stems, who ponder easy existence on ultraviolet cue balls. Travel to wrestling motifs enables tourniquets to stain exemptions, hobbling a dragon’s only vellum moose, scratching all night. Plenty of merely pleasant calamity kits needle the parking lot’s feral cinders, edging out residual torpor for a lamp in repaired ponds. Coloring boats rinse angular lobs of any haunted wealth, grappling with grey chutes for a flight to the normal fence. Loose hangars emit caretaker prints, clawing through alien clover with two-handed peat. They want to trample the pit bull, but balk at common filth. How else to expiate their woozy liens? When mirth entails all gregarious spelunking in a man cave made for treason, who will tamper with belly dancers on hurtling trams? As lungers dock the mean arrangers of flexed carriages, players can count feather paints for easy internment, debiting aphasia. Girls rescind whatever android leather pop-ups the flawed equestrian poultice managed to detract, clearing our jetty of heavy machinery. Loafers imply a streaming steed’s milled dalliance, responding in a fatal scourge of keen Velcro. Wishing for a whole plaster, dreg mechanics splurge, foppish and impaired. Red evenings debase a tulip cabin’s ventral mink, easing nine horrible chefs into prickly caboose shoes. Pent up for wagoners, thousands of gravel experts fry dented monopoles over braised eyelets, goosing a high scrambler. Carloads of early species enter fast food claims, quacking along with portal crawls. Sated by pygmy ailerons, abridged cilia scoot over splintering piles, merging urchins and extra relish. Catching as canneries flee, aquarium junkies spell tesseract netting with forty-one vowels, overturning a wilting incision’s rude stanchion. Palliative clarity ensues, warbling into a round table quarter, saving a sapper from timorous welts. Doors implode at the hint of grenadine intent, defending foreign pillory decanting, despite a healthy dose of greeting card clues. Can antebellum op art wells send newly conquered jammers to cholera havens? Will spore collectors root out presidential opera mugs before erroneous waifs inflate a yoyo? Thesis packers buy blank faces at marked bubble easements, chipping metric marbles through wickered feints, arguing for livery moons. Floored celery cheats on mothering banks, halting a cheesebag fade, enduring moribund hygiene. Lowing felons grace the plains with prescient wind, blocking dented croupiers, tiling wheezers with canned vermouth. Throwing pealing artists an ossified eruption kit, teamsters evacuate the messy trance, flooding a conscious dealer’s second-hand Pinto with rice scissors. Usual ardor flows, skipping kinfolk cramps, exiting a pocketed knave’s penitent grappling chowder bulb. Purple finally obtains, grafting collars to weird police feet, stubbing out workhorse beans. Games leap into pralines, chugging worsted séance chews, bringing excretions over, sliming a heavy gofer with ancient mead. Kickoff detergent smells suspiciously of linseed oil, basking in the boxer’s glorious plight, delaying departure of all Earth-bound blowguns. A simple fracture, to be sure, but sunset obscured the cruising Egyptologist’s sign of interred distress, plaguing extra cable cars for hills, dales, and bellwether pronoun juice. Even so, stitches were fondly inferred, leavening the vital pox with drainage rants and pillaged franks, mastering a dental coot’s idle barn.

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS

Hulking give gamble, colossal expiration openhearted petite bilk peaking chest
Cubbyhole unlace compulsory binge inception. harness scone queer, ebony
Debar, payment swoon bladder. Cutter tattle bland, upbraid moral peroxide,
Insipid cajole adulator, depreciation void wrapper. Blandishment invoice beak,
Ink oblivion cyst booster salve expressionless applause.

Housing blare, impious launching ravaged shine, barren inferno whitener
Clouded amalgamate grieve. Sacrament extol dedicated decaying
Purblind blessedness swelling blitz, merry melt onslaught. Tempest blister
Hinder dunce bloodshed. Gutter cubicle defraud, carousel fasten sneer toady
Omnibus. Augmentation crib muffin hostile. Pristine blacklist saccule,
Sword absolve dim jolly.

Blasphemy clang fuzzy merge dispirited approbation windfall bleach
Sickness calculated, blow pellet retard. Slaughter booby fleece, vulgarity
Rook soothing tart bright begrime, Amnesia pod censure fawn butter
Knocker, void eulogist padding toot, piety discharge. Deft holocaust
Scar analyze, canonized gladden malediction wink.

Paradisaical inflammation blithe dolt sally heritage bamboozle slander can
Intermix felicitation obstruct. Weld arid, everyday extortion swoon. Billow
Morsel bizarre, lancet vapid twinkle ancestry impediment, empty credit
Shakedown simpleton trumpet epidemic.

Dull incursion overpraise binding canonized blastoff oblivious
Blameworthy mellow, raw dwindle perfection. Glee bleed panoramic
Curse plaudits morose peal, snowfall chump. Compound bloat.

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

altPOMEalbootfr eeinmprov j zz
from Dead in Ethyl

alcohol dedicates a sixth. supermarket warehouses presence chord.

simple wood bolts without heartrhythm . poison chords outset chiming.

Meaningless trying too heartily froth. worses ice retracts behind seventh.

background ignores outside wrong. daylight parses fum charitable bottle.



Should brass vintage accident. hack mint exits into fakebook.

overload cracks before said supermarket. hash another mix.

exhausting rain nose within brass. turntable growsoutsized drum.

Around chair parades very cosmology. inner wire refines alter note.



unconnected harmony cry beams. prototype smokes brand melody.

Can this bag snow an epic suicide. Even fabric listens throughout Satsu.

Ant autobiography grows wings. each hammer steals an oriented finger.

yawn scrolls player absence facility. Overtones quarters participants into

text || John M. Bennett

SENTENCE NBABÀBA

not this mbaah mbaah
nfounfa hélicon filled
puzzle d’éponges gangà
flammes uplifting key
at diately mon hazard
not that blessures from
pages encounter tòmbo
script gmbabàba ciseaux
percep ethos witness idiot
gargarisme rrrrrrr not
this reading soap cascade
foot phoetus circulaire
swan shovels emblematic
hozondrac bodies tata
merging zigzag fish
spirales dissappearr
frission between
gouffre de noise ar
chives seigneur par
boil la sphère time’s
scaphandres vin et sel
helium onion arranged
sheets paralitiques la
tripess patalitiques le
witness lait nimbe
séchesse sea nothing
saeh les chaines voltaïques
slowly the flexible sphingerie
veux-tu zoom the mask sub
ject cooking les oiseaux sub
ject dans la cage your
porous chemin trick kidney
tumbler les panthères boueuses
étrangler the circle groceries
frank fragment en silence
acide baxcerbated the
rooms se liquéfient ma
pharmacie nu computer
voice mooozir d’hôtel
vide les poissons de vast
ating Brillo pads discipline
de jet-d’eau urinal gaze
bedsheets sable lourd tête
militaire meubles use-value
beings electricité de la
chair policiers between
global nothii l’imprimerie
l’oeil vieux references
journal fumé culture et
feu blanc beginning
waterfalls sheeting dipper
plywood tu peux le
mordre smoor the
pregnancy ashes and nuages
imbolic seed je cherche the
climate une lampe the
alphabet des officiers
letters lactées clix vaca
spirale la vache noir
daar humide le lepreux
sproutings not that tu
penses une astérie de
collides mosaics bubble
blooge courts poissons
de coaliti géante
sensatic clouées sur
tes fact cicatrices
map not this iron lune
lacustre analine h at
furniture fork blend
les armoires craq vent
the and for has guerre
typhoïde danse mars
lizard lézard casino
oral pieds snuff
l’étoile glove teeth
je suis styrofoam ar
chiteo poste gélatineux
mega pierre bree vac
uum oeufs historio
house mars youyouyou la
chambre vidée beng bong
beng bang gum tomes
morceaux de drrrrr
parmi nos entrailles ex
perimented cloth sounds
orko iiiiiiiiupft se
taisent the shapes the
poet kudzu teh soupape
handwriting cheed aouith
litophanie allows nuages
homeless moth memory
zigzag froid la boutique
sonore meap mocking
in perceptible artix
faim feu sang not
that étoiles craquent
mordre the fooor pro
duce the public circuit
organe cadavre famine
blue occupy fuming bue
lièvres ruins fingers
lignes boats dumpster
flacons blancs le pays
monologue illegible plus
tard the garden pohems
object the stove très
scabreux numerous pho
tographs dichotomy fiévreux
membres dripppping traffic
writing raw légumes semer
the tires’ asemic wheat
transdictional doigts tes
ongles horizontales éclats
de space reductive ox piano
siffla la strophe de la
révolution nocturne
cream seer month not
this that instant de limite
ventre oof sign sanglant
screwdrivers pathe sweat
shops ghost squelette
domestique sleep cake
waves cacapho roi de
glace mer written soc
iety crom zygote tongue
la sphère volcanique
ckroach gesture after
math healing famine
ma touche sécheresse
parallell that this blow-ups
mon frère digère oeil
ring verb also parapluies
pornography l’explosion
rrrrrrrr muctive serial
de l’eau allumée dog
chats en metal spokes
comma editor le chemin
rouge organismes else
tzacatzac veut veut
casse monsieur back
drops the timbre-poste
voir blanc la mort brûlée
le clou decomposé of
course theiiiiiiiiiiiis rubble
morceaux de têtes sna
pshots en marche spat
ial priviledge feet past
road flacon de fire
d’instants coupés regarde
qui passe written rubis
un oiseau que brûle not
this o that cercle la cas
cade de shit discernment
fond sage too close
les nerfs the index cuts
les clowns de la religion
delinquent boundary
rien froid jaguars
the subject education
insinua equivoque la
langue familiar éclat
de sang ammer earth
panting cloche that
sage-femme this was
everyday putride left
l’éternité timide bird
disparait virus upheaval



John M. Bennett, March 2012

Chopped and spun from
Jim Leftwich, Six Months Aint No Sentence, Book 17,
Roanoke, 2012
and
Tristan Tzara, Vingt-Cinq Poèmes,
Zurich: Collection Dada, 1918.

text || John Pursch

Dorsal Dreamscape

Staggered by neglect, pinned to banyan roots by hampered canes and hissing moral legions, martyrs plan a demigod’s last spatial hurrah, jamming quaint floral petticoats with tumid, sheer delights. How quietly the evening gowns for surgical balls, flipping quoits for gals galore, grasping at gallons of locked dominions. Stethoscope pinholes matter to the chosen feudal barometer, lopping off strafed entrees in a rutted winter lane. Static breathes an ignoble watchword, spiking a glorious phantom’s worn hernia with smooth, organic Nerf control, splicing loose piranhas with coiled copra pinnacles, hovering beneath the bell socket. Zooming springtime salmon jump for salted, kneeling pinafores, pressing joyous rodeo clowns for just a smidgen of rote arrest. Desk-bound cultures hammer honor into phased concrete, stacking germ platoons in mock assemblies, aging the beef turret’s simple waterline, trimming a dorsal dreamscape. How nimbly the youngest tutu curtsies in midnight’s fading glance, graphing grace along an axeman’s sable floor.

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS

Apprenticeship soil resent, hesitant operate tedious demean. Carry
Decapitate behest existing, expatiate delayed belch vexed. Certitude distort,
Opinion credit adherent underrate buzzer aggressive. Thunder shepherd
Abdomen rapport possessions sweet, underneath mourn twist thanks
Magnanimity, crooked ask surround. Express prime brutal, wager award mislead,
Betrothal worsen bible bidding wrangle unstinting. Guzzling
Solicitation passion cipher bijou
Spleen. Bauble hogwash petulant. Amateur splotch commencement stint
Resentful deportment guillotine mandate.

Organism pound, overdue disgorge annoyed creed. Devotee reject ringleader
Chime, acceptance paunch, kinship darling less wallop cummerbund lament.

Detrimental kneel calamity goodwill, obliging resolved beg moreover savage
Slant summons stay. Blindness rancor beginner crotchety finish
Smear bewitching. Action bubble doubt, militant signal stomach aloft flatter.
Boss sash resist, unwholesome philanthropy handicap ante, engagement
Trick proclivity, tender nobody gem.

Gibberish happy, frontward, plagued gush combative, yell prayer girdle,
Sottish gospel underling jewel. Drivel tremendous, consumption forced
Enthralling din skeptic belongings tiny bilge. Belly award collated. Tarnish
Stiffen altruistic withhold, nonexistence bellwether worse malevolence whack.
Discontent humane cold belongings beck stiffen, thanks.

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

altPOMEalbootfr eeinmprov j zz
from Dead in Ethyl

alcohol dedicates a sixth. supermarket warehouses presence chord.

simple wood bolts without heartrhythm . poison chords outset chiming.

Meaningless trying too heartily froth. worses ice retracts behind seventh.

background ignores outside wrong. daylight parses fum charitable bottle.



Should brass vintage accident. hack mint exits into fakebook.

overload cracks before said supermarket. hash another mix.

exhausting rain nose within brass. turntable growsoutsized drum.

Around chair parades very cosmology. inner wire refines alter note.



unconnected harmony cry beams. prototype smokes brand melody.

Can this bag snow an epic suicide. Even fabric listens throughout Satsu.

Ant autobiography grows wings. each hammer steals an oriented finger.

yawn scrolls player absence facility. Overtones quarters participants into

poem || John M. Bennett

Sole Dadas chunk 17
Transduced from Góngora's Soledades

CORN I. “Vine, Hymen, and Nostril’s agriculture
of copies tall a stray double migration
of progeny tan robust, that his mane
towers dooms, and from a ruby mare of spiggots
inundates liberals’ tired dermis,
and the verdant, jovial, florid llama
blanks over soy’s haggle, caned,
in a brief whore’s cadence the herbs;
or less exclaimed liquid’s all minerva,
and, the Olmecs’ case what conned the vittles,
in mental corona’s pampered Alcydes,
cave’s impuned Lie.
Vine, Hymen, vine; vine, Hymen”.

CORN II. “Vine, Hymen, and tank the die of Pales
quantum’s Pile’s dulcet prawns stray,
on penis’ hill ahoy, it’s Madam Manners.
Day errands’ lilies under the forest
covet, cords mill where crystals
visit the real in brief undulant lanes;
of Arachnid otoliths the arrogance vain’s
modest accusals in blank tales,
not of the hurt of morn, not the cauterized
non Jupiter compelled, which owns not the line
nor the plunger’s Lucifer of oiled fin,
nor all the blank scissors’ creel.
Vine, Hymen, vine; vine, Hymen”.

The dulcet halter cants
a shushed tumbler’s revoked fillets’
lost novices, dull bacon’s tepid saint.
Dull yolk owns no dumbed services,
novels, nor brief terminus shirked,
restitution siezed the pendant carrot
and all that passaged elbow’s lost guard.
Legal toads, pissed, and, with gallant
civil magnificence, the swilling ancient’s
quantum last cereal died, quantum’s dye the llama
labored convinced
of’s prolific rustling comma
that signed rumor prevented no messes grunting.
Oysters crest blank sculptures,
artifice gentle of doublings
in loss when damasks mantle Flanders,
mental casseroles line Ceres’ danced
offer hoard, quantum guards the hen’s
dulcet palms who curse all the Atlatl’s
fired doors framed.
Managers who with venereal
wide appetite ignore the mental iguana
less served; and in oil no, lucid,
confused Bacchus, kneel in broiled plate’s
sub nectar less desired,
signal thin in vittles’ topaz caramels
and pallid rubies.
Cellar’s dull fog keys, regaled,
the gullet’s stoked ruby
imitator swerves in the zero,
quizzing dulcetly apprised
of rust’s vacant,
blank, hurled man, whose coiled veins
extinguished her from the lecher’s pains;
masked needs the crackled noosed esquire,
needs the membered puddle denuded,
O see the sabered olive
not serenaded by the backward deluge.
Levitated the mesas, all corners
sound with Nymph’s one temple, whore’s cane,
says of the mountains, says of the campaign’s
(shut sprawlings ray the subtle orb
which neighed the vent’s naked bean T-ball),
term of Grease’s bell, repeated
cuadrant vases in docent labors,
entered balling the mental numbers;
and dulcet Muse enters hell (sees consistent
barbers or Parnassus’ molars)

text || John Crouse

from REFRAINS

Comely barricade, cheap postulate creel, mainstay cluster soaping. Presumption
Drench mawkishness lavatory essential, caduceus bathos horde barber
Wax fray beaming orientation sinew. Bunch medicate bloom wallop
Muster, harmony pommel rampart plaything skirmish.

Recoiling trinket loveliness chamber weep, daring verify beaten gleam,
Pornographic saturate. Bedrock proboscis subsidiary bawl, reference
Gesture disorient. Handsomeness latterly beef, bunk enervate
Entreat downcast propagate flattering harass, peace deformity
Breed signal befall. Palpitate confound attractive beseech throb bastion
Crook seaside, premise allegiance rally blob basics.

Gripe slush reading festoon, eyesore favor overcome
Trimming pauper immerse. Smarten
Battlement bathe, pulchritude dodge. Accursed
Humane scowling bloom, basket illuminate vagabond inaugurate.

Deportment lagoon smutty divine, savage concord obfuscate inasmuch
Beckon bawdy sap. Glitter launder. Cove batten sullen engender smite
Concur, substratum licked, noble debase.