text || Edward Nichols

Plectraelectric sends a magnifying dish of crustaceans swimming cloisterous venacular. Plarshuts parasarade the blotched cularstance and startle the tregulated hypocollar bluardian. Don't tackle a tenth of sogarious clanpipes if the aluminum tentacle courteously regains a stronghold. Cragglesteps beguiled the rotten-pinch ; then the stench of claywattles gypsies of the moon come swim glittering to the austacious preciouspipe of wiggley-swan- songs betrothing the edifice of courtcount mantlepiece lace of mothflying voice over clutterparts. I've swarms of lidicous vaporian regalia. Say spruce up the crymanal Tennison of irrigated cloisterous brawlings. Twenglesmorth the fuel inspected Moon Rockets of glaring treason.Besmirch the claintesdomed freemongrels and treglunth cleavage

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Hair now light wheat hue, and wind goes ninety-nine degrees to sprinkle

tones from chimes outside my neighbor's door. "Cooler today, a bit," say radios.

I'm  fastened to the desk I love. The keyboard soon will be replaced. Mid-week,

no sign of conclusion. In an hour,it will be time to wrap up scansion and its monstrous

revelations. Each day, calls for proposals elevate desire beyond usual weeds.

Summer remains a grand time for endowments. Crops mature in unison with

pioneering spirits, as ancestral sleeves. As though immune to in-vogue sentiments,

the unraveled pleasure of firm stasis. All the threats have names we can pronounce

and speak through in the form of an informal bond.

 

Chalices planted on shelves, dry season, comaraderie enough to go around

 

Sheila E. Murphy

3 texts || John Pursch

Soggy Flies

Charismatics plunge above tramline stairs, swinging weakly for the derailed tomb, switching to foreign lesions in lieu of entry-fee heuristics. Squeezed blotches face an envious torpor queen, stipulating medical homilies to rage between a carnivore’s few sales events. Outer elders trample beached panoramas, pejorative and aloof, trying suborned circuit spiels in sacked and tailored booths. Kneepad whiskers issue wispy antlers, tearing down dreamt apertures, emergent and mixed with spun mittens. Fruit patties fill an omnivore’s family train, cobbling off a serial moocher’s lust for weed patrols. Divided subalterns put short hippies into mutant icons, swapping dishrag razors for cheetahs made in Spain. Truncheon brew, served with rising enmity, sweetens a cardigan’s worn sleeveless ire, clattering to discussion portal fumes. Replicated docks partition anonymous jingles, rendering troves of endearing warps from sidecar casket news. Teary orators peek ahead in lactose hells, breathing solid fur, rippling real itches for a dozen soggy flies.

Floxie Mobertrak

Cartrodginous phelter moun 

emier glinton bantudimal hemt, 

eajen trin sempoch exiter 

prome chistula. 

Exum whootch inte scremulot frieg, 

anker choot orple stemph inchenture 

prond efuliam achorine squelt, 

prenning zondunile cheeth, 

archen flugal semir. 

Dronier proozen graplemark, 

luftabai krom benderpreit, 

samtibune etchenzie 

octer grene chur. 

Snockin fure dreu ichenbar, 

wettel zoiper fronken 

alipreit ormantile heid, 

arp ontie floxie mobertrak. 

The Philadelphia Experiment

Cresting moats offset any feudal armpit’s flaccid niche, lasting well past scolding time, evaporating at a measured psalter’s gangly gradient. An intermittent ensign flickers topside, smudging the foggy seawall, blending gray tension with cunning, hammered into sweet clouds of barking sprouts. Barely scudding above peristyle dregs, the mariner’s glower turns to ivory signals, morphing shaky wheelhouse crones to salad, resting dangerous divers for a fortnight. Oilers meet with carnival shepherds, feeling their dazed rainbows, shielding heaps of lampooned gentlemen from momentary beans. Meanwhile turns to after hours, singing braided oxygen, firing the cabinet, eclipsing newly janitorial seedlings. Transitions defame a handheld finger, sketching ornery ochre timers, planning astringent boomers in tenderly affixed knaves. Naïve drummers swelter to the stone’s thrown idolatry, certain that spartan chances will slobber wooden droplets. Weirdly doting seminar pollsters hover nearby, complicating daubed crucibles.

text || Edward Nichols

Wagner-Ah a special candle have i, the drizzling drops of dripping are water into the one-eye, it seems to be viewing the terrestial wave of the outer road of continents flowing circumstance. Thre,i see the three pink monuments guarding the flow , the wave, the transmission of glishshandoing intent, and the great bird of onward slagging swoops and droops over the wave fields surface. The pristine fossilized state of aestheistic modernism plucks a vibrational note on the string of his frequencies conundrum.Hermes-The two-hundred foot tall black and white television responder transponder an organic resupplication of true artificial edifice. As i slow any pretensions on the tuner and adjust in the static field of fossilized activation.

2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

Quickde dPOME

heaped faith

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linesun ders

cored like

tablets/flis

heish direly

 

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seer ma cro s

co pe filg    ertad

 

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lly

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fle eflu  te      fomeph

trustwor

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aho rn diep e

rt op ple

teaped jaya

aaayth  gunme

i s  tern   ouys

less er

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POME

wance to sh oadhing an ti  cie

do mak e nop ga’her ing ritual

floss hatrip vam mitt det ter a

glow ing dim ple sunlikel y tran

cein du ced for’uneslea k   riper

gravel mist gurney dam dae toe

sh oad hing a n  ti       ga ther ing

 

shirt load xenon draped unraveli

fless harnop vam mit t d  et   ter a

gavel mast  gur ne y da m dag toe

eleven oclo lin shap farc gien  gi er

cein du forunes lea k  ripertw e lve

 

 

 

 

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Would you imagine I drift into overdrive, a thankless ledge? Here in the movie place, where syllables reach out to panhandlers, I keep my visor washed. As though shadows might reveal new synonyms for reckless pleasure felt without a word in sight. "Can you hear me from the 101, sweet young olympic darling?" Wanderlust means hammock envy, dontcha know?" It's feeble how we do not walk until there is a carrot at the end of various canals. Come slumber near the demitasse of urgent keepsake clasp. You call her clingy. I call her "snapped out" of resplendent frenzy. Any old sycamore will do beside her teacup full of wine. Wind socklets purge near neighbors of their curiosity. The shop sold curios, I dreamt of merging with its partial wingspan just before the war of cast aspersions. Dimsdale, provost, harsh tint, glory. Keep my vine desirably unclimbed. The tempo of the tempest in arrears, was that a mere incline? Hosts are many, shows are few. The ray of sunbeam totaled facts until accompanying engines withered into dust.

Chaparrel for chaperones, in our very midst, a mist of easterly perfume

  

Sheila E. Murphy

text || Peter Ganick

either aside vacancy elsewhile torn assuage gypsum appearance delta utensil grapeshot reminder spacefiller eggnog slick naming essential brochure alsosla gingerly approbate culpable torsion efficacy broken statement vulnerable cornichon seldom affect effect rend alsosla silence turbine orzo stitch availings epochal demiurge lathe simpleton assurances deluge propensity noces deterrents clavier karmic sez ez kalpa rim asleeo congerie answer reek anisette package brouhaha thosethese prairie eclat notifies outside warning contrarian villanelle prosody vineyard skeleton assurances delude paprika boatshoe feisty kalpa thosesoht canister yardarm nutshell utter answer itselfnessless negative lotto spansule grapeshot ruminator slash proclivity abelard snick tonearm snippet aisle grimace slash versional torus enough perpetuate victual moonsong realismo hadron parallel sheik contrasting viceroy bin horrorific sidereal anomy negotiate rehearsal disport emeritus gaffer nasal perimeter gaggle niter ainsi nautica enough preparatory union typic lastingly nearby stigmata energy answer numerous uttering lossless antagonism rebus galleon wardens deluge affiliation setback nefarious threadless antiquity eachlessly antiquarian slipper fanned materiality cozone that there scrutinize amputee slash vault iriquois dwelling realization elemental corrective amount seizure pandemonium stricken pulp factor aforementioned sort fending scrappy niceties lacunae noemata threading strings effectual principle anisette list encyclical borscht vanitas celica dendrite accursive recall gondola remand seizures ironic also breaking through sanitize ranging lesser nervous denominate asleep yahoo deluge repatriate veni vidi viceroy closure thorough sanitize palomino slippery acme islanded vulnerable congerie louver naissance total noesis thatness waiving exchange often hasp reification burlap incidentally cough strut eaves deluge presumption eachless nacreous thereforerogereht utterly nefarious thematic lug nutella conestog denature boars helpmeet coaxial debut stymie figural implement snuffle global eine heinous verre hoax oxymoron tater also sellout oxfigural implement snuffle global eine heinous verre hoax oxymoron tater also sellout oxygenous delegation elsewhile transduce familiar perennial cufflink sensor ascorbic entity scrawl yeoman ciliate merriment asleep cairn settlement vanguard smash eventual nsaid propitious avenue traduce foible reinstate mollify noces transcend whichwhytofore elementally crisscross effigy utterances elite iamb sienese vender socal brimstool niblet vouchsafe einsam torus plateau centrism verification melee soutine valkyrie sample thisness whereins slowcast forgone parallel ingenious trapezoid enigma utterly pranam yeses ornamental cette snope ciliate melody rasa talon genetic aspirate combustion valence noose feint lasso genome already bot seeing falsehood invariably cogent asleep stubby bivouac feint lasso tiger snapple vocational inquiry sampler assurances delay rottweiler vacuums denote shear diremption wall boa governance delegation subsumes delay correctly agonist venial contrast inventory amaze geometry utterance tiling enigmatic slumlord egregious telling streichquartette various lobbyist moviegoers illuminate mandolin arcana denoting distances whether aisle perplexity vanquish guffaw strobe canoe alhambra senator enough psalter vanish gentleness wait errata vengeance foresting vermillion camouflage intrepid socal noon tribulation elastic placards heralding geistlich hominid silence saffron assurances deliberated mod structure gabbing ciliate mod sitter accost vend allies persistence mindstyle operating catachresis neoprene assail genome assist governance slate faint esplanade vermicelli pinafore niceties wampum excoriates deliberating site waffle siddha nsaids seasonable infrastructure accordings swelter aimless omnibus exegete val de mar soot hoax cohort averaging sellout software demeanor sip aromatics zoned neither walrus utterance lotto speciously originate urteil anchored nacreous dint offering alongside wanderings elasticist vacant mirror agenda cufflinks putanesca divulge snafu goof seldomed anchoring silence deterministic avail feint seizure unless rooftop slash geist hammering dsl opacity furlough plumb seer tariff allowance sez ez monist verbatim eachness lexical spansule torte averaging sufferance tolerably preclude together span seismic mackerel another witnessing alchemic surreal versive also naivete mirroring each vetted sample eternal piety cosine guffaw facsimile nth asemic realitizers denominate vast preclude another witness affable onset centrism cold sweep untidy sap eggshelled gnostic perpetuity nacreous ennui rawhide samovar impede petulant apparitional corvette ancilliary badge mirror aside mandala enigmatic ruffling eachness watershed upward sadhana lossles ainsi borrow sache tonearm ingenious tiller sacral imprimatur juniper anno domini slippery bacchus leitmotif caliphate vegetable santa errata mobilize anthem saladmaster thirst environ waferthin sturm und drang laissez assist lexical ornery almondine liaison asleep veranda unicycle relata motto 

poems || Felino A. Soriano

from Quartet Dialogues

Of piano

|9|

calm now I

as                                 away

as

                        conferring ambulation of this

symptom of outcast speech, the silent thus

considered

behavioral/physical\

overseeing vacuities  of listener’s

comprehensive unawareness

|10|

                        have (intensity) you

                        heard (imagining) this

                        hydraulic (elation) composition

within methods of solace

            a

moldering fascination with life’s decomposition

                                                                                    the

fabricated solution to stress’ devotional hymns to

engage

opposition within the mind’s pluralized

innovation       installing mobile

hallucination?

|11|

                                                                                                slants

                                                c

                                           u

                                               r

                                                   l

                                                     s

a

 n

  g

   l

    e

     d curvatures

characterizing the modular musicality of rejuvenated movement

in/out a/of CONTROL persuasion methodology /\euphony\/

integrating

                        sustained gauge these

heard straight-ahead cultural dilemmas

                                                                        a rotational fusion

beginning then = end

multiplicity of multilingual

misreading\s

|12|

of the green hanging

inward contemplation

corrective aspectual

hardening, this new

hence, color-greeting

pastime definition

realizing voice of the

vocalizing willing

look into the behind

motif to describe the

sometimes outlook of

promissory sameness

|13|

I’ve called upon an echo’s

cerebral contextual habit

            the

orbiting of

                        nuanced sentences

                        continuing

                                                communicative semblances

                                                                        to

alter sections of speech’s

desolate acclimation

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

She asked the softest questions about number I believed were hard as future rust.

I learned from what she asked, my answers would soon dry. In the room with us

was canvas, stretched across some wooden bars. I worked on composition

far from challenges. She wondered whether I had saved, and I acknowledged

that, of course, a little bit. She warned me not to fear. I bore the nickname

Baby Angel, as it fit my clothes. It fit the future beyond old paths. A color

I had not pronounced came forth, as wind propelled. The loft felt full

of sleep. Accordingly, the light diminished where it had served. And color fell

across the page. Whole green endowments strained to have occured. No minute

after breeds the needed math. Stalled wisdom rises from the place before

one looks away. Wholeness per usual, deferred.

Auras derived from their root systems, mild glow above the underground,

and you there, silvery or so

Sheila E. Murphy

3 texts || John Pursch

Lone Dominion Glue

Calmed by a floating dove’s exiled creak, mechanical crusts impinge on dedicated tufts, inuring our blended bolts to aching ocular oafs in patent office despair. Arguing for extended irrigation, Dutch carvers meander into green syllabic posturing, shielding inferential damsels from turrets of peace. Known to all worldly oaths, a segue to trailhead mantras heats the closet’s odalisque, conferring inches of folding ethane on iterated rungs. Clamped tower chatter blunts the unheard buffoon’s crimson taunts, spinning fodder wellspring charts for voyeuristic ploys. Plangent towns break into arcs of roadhouse moans, emptying scalar reputations into scientific ambition. Queries flip between astral cheering squads, flying effusive candor into intrepid hours, squandering an entrée’s destiny. Welling up with torn, macular ooze, eyelids wheedle the very sane immersion prow’s heirloom lullaby from striations of a clenched detainee, ushering in a downtime transit’s eastern loon. Dented pluralities attain novel grains of rinsed beer, riding healthy waves to trimmed tectonic pools. Triadic insect spoilers, unborn and weaned of incoming salt, petrify an ignited aerial landscape, laughing in horizontal ballrooms of martial thumping. Antithetical card games ensue, drooling massive piles of hexagonal interns, smiling at a grated ouster’s snapshot hypo. Elks intone a kegger’s pasteurized effluent, resolving into lone dominion glue.

Apieceo Deloif

Wanwe peckup wharsomevah whaluftoff, eet’s aloddielick bayinata moooing sow moon, leadin hourly shelves tareberths onan ohscenic attic linear egoliner, aroarin shep asoilin dadroidal seize frum loiftaliffee, acupunchin winnowed baudies, whan hefter an utterance clomes outer damouth uva canofreshly boinked broth. Uzeta moik daexhumin piecies, wit croutonal endzoimal tractures, dees biolopic sturf excredoes alldata parson kenebber imasculate datwan kenapple drounof. Ocurse eet’s awl adotal mastery tous; hoppin oui allcanoe disobviated flackt und kensea daconsequential neighborly startling ur enderbundent und rhotarting nurture uv dahole. Gripping dees muck, wheel shave afoitin chalice uvleafin apieceo deloif weedout mashin oich ather tebeets eurantum und craven hospillities, cratin causal tees whandites oudbe mar epproprioctal. Betya wellnighty canticle; dreiz isde nacho ov debeef uber watch heir bloodies arch unstructured. Erwe shamely chest hourly brawnies? Eeesit bladder taset ashoid all canned iteration oven heifer lift? Achin, noon nose trinkets lick tease, nought haven agloomy hammer, undandywan whosez daydue eesfallo speet. Preambly breast, throw, neta sight unsaid sedge oideational hackin; ferentheez sumting voluble ees heftin fond, grievin usawl edited values.

Threaded Time

Serving a wishing well’s coastal fraction, cloaked electronic mist urges the sentient anchor to honk at endgame healers, snapping airborne adjutants with wingman glue. Raised knees sport nuclear cordons, simmering and crying into an archway’s archaic pleat, stumping for alimentary plumage. Foiled bettors clear the deltoid fridge for junior heating pads, flashing helms of darned ether. Deeply chartered all-stars fry on the spansule, hailing from ownership pundits in a laudatory entryway’s pointed crochet fair. Cattle endear looping rescue cousins to catering trotters, shifting inexact melons, amplified with rallied gourds. Wingspans bump ashore, trailing plastic noses, heaving enteric beauty corks for friendly moat repairmen. Hallowed daisies cleanse a sprung orderly, dripping blurred captions into early barge tenors, skewering the peerage with cratered newsprint chats. Lapping loiterers track schematic whorls, imprinting flat dendritic cores. Cunning foils the cowling, merging hearts with crabapple dirges, pickled in threaded time. 

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POMEAcci dent

 

watching light t urn red/dish >slop e for

 

ward cinder eyepu  l   l l   lies wristtwisss

 

earthornsanon painr^ippedfaucet s tr ui ta

 

 

ng lolig hts dip sy foe ward flight do wno

 

shirt roip edan certaken flesh fla sh ch a a

 

se wondering daem on downpa  ntno s s

 

hoe distil floorfacing deep well de^ad   ri n  n

 

g finger ringer| santa bellscrumbloast wat

 

ch fried lemonga solinese ep illitlly b ikls  ^2’a

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Impossibly slow-going effort in redacting via poking into others' feeble hiding

spots. If that's a sentence, I may qualify for broadcast vocal quality. This mensch

of a didact mentors me. Dividing line between us copes. We scope our flowers on

the wall to be thin-layered in our wake. Away with you, barked the officer. I'm twice your

share request. The beeline made, once fathomed, has crippled its play-through

dialect for you, for me, for hearsay. Ivor Winters wintered here. A withering respect for

notebooks, young and bald, goes with us through the grad school grind. A diag

laced with smoke, apart from rings, finesses how we work. We work through this and

that canary when we fortify. Conjugate that wilderness, said popelets in the dark room.

Vote for me, said Mary. Find your way to peat moss toying with the rusted compass. When

new neighbors hatch, remind them of referrals. Then the custom of the costume

of the welding pros begins to mean iambic pent-up grace. One move in my

direction, and I'll fault you to the next authority. I see your name along my left side,

noting I am always on the busy, at the ready, on the house. She sat, meaning she prayed,

or there were babies to be watched. She watched, thereby recorded her young silence,

as if any number of interpreters were there to verify. You like this mind, then put in a

pre-order, and there will be shares and shares alike.

 

Costume jouissance, a major seventh to your spouse for tapping into violet detente 

 

Sheila E. Murphy

poetry || Peter Ganick

from tablets: nature-some-where - 2

    An afternoon: ochre sunlight probes
through a window's tones, the amnesty

of silence.

    Where waiting begs to slumber not,

to epicenters of minds' motion, an

awash-fading sumptuous volition where

pristine lacquer smothers natural wood.

    The camber of trick or trust, no

largesse more multiple than patterned

elation held under tracks for the coast-

ed-into upswing. Negatives of treason-

ous application approach. The unforce-
ful ring of push-pull escapades tunnel

down through its provenance.

    ... while protection is houses for

tides' dispersal, small sightings of

prevention dig unto surface

solidarities. Candor of narrations

(‘there are too many stories', was

saying ... ) on another breath, kiss-

returning, told scarf to melody.

    With manners of perception,

quickness pro aventura is disin-

clined for relatedness' context-

ually-paved entrepreneurs, toler-

ably zithered from avarice.

    Smile! or do not seem its folding

in retraction, so marred threats

of compacted risk, brigands re-

load to crumble agony of night's

spiral, up-cast carding rendered

non-involvement.

  

    Why arch at waiting's    

crenulla? The condensation

epitomizes a pattern morn-

ing hadn't seen. Rarely wait-

ing long, or not, in the dread -

apathy mode, skeletal bases -

are transformed to spirit-fac-

ing-color. Mood seeks its

dispersal, before vanity is

referred, guest holograms

anchor the traffic girdling

the proud city. It's pious citi-

zens never known to term a

false label.

    Unstructured as it goes,

the poem's isolated ducts

and funnels, as if a tornado

floods through an epilogue's

restitution.

    Weary as catcalls ovulate

in chickadees uncooped,

havens of both artisans, court-

eous on the sly blend go name-

less sitcoms on late night

caissons fending with icarus'

ascent. At mystery's incidence,

woven tracts draining tassels

are well tested from fisticuffs

in saltine's legions.

    A narrow hurdle voices

other distractions while will-

ful areas bristle because here

there is, therefore tones the

assertive admit willow turns

to. More timing for warmth

here as then, to some less

thought out inquiry predicting

what will resonate, by scop-

ing targets' possibles.

    Mandala to reign in, from

a seeded pittance, aggies

lament the literary object.