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2 poems || John M. Bennett

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Lapel pins rinsed in blood form abstract playthings on the creased part of an overlay. His arms in bronze are generally capable. Now and early go distinctions between tongue and tungsten. He reads matter-of-frack questions from a clipboard. One of us will pay the gent in polyester for the right to stand beneath these awnings stretched a gel green. We stay put, practicing arpeggios the way that mother used to fake. I talk to studio audiences like you. I tell my history, and listen for skeptical minds to overflow with cryptic jabs. Stick figures puncture when we're noticing other flings. And now you may observe a flicker of our jaundiced pace, when we feign special intentions as if unisonly sprung from shared footage on these pavement squares. An officer in navy starts to point out sins, for which I answer via 

gratitude by wearing white. I tell my grace notes of your grace's face fall when the usual exterior goes spliced. Now ticket-free, my record holds a place along the leaf-lined rite

of passage.

Donations to the library, countess with a whisper of a name, a fresh hue to the upstart

Sheila E. Murphy

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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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

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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