poem || Matt Margo

Ulysses Hyphenated

knife-blade coat-sleeve looking-glass no-one no-one no-one no-one no-one north-west twenty-eight no-one twenty-fifth no-one no-one no-one lying-in brother-in-law brother-in-law have-you brother-in-law brother-in-law no-one brother-in-law lying-in no-one no-one no-one no-one no-one light-of-love no-one brothers-in-love no-one brother-in-law no-one no-one no-one brothers-in-law no-one hop-of-my-thumb mirth-provoking no-one no-one man-o’-war no-one no-one no-one no-one no-one no-one no-one sister-in-law dog-gone will-o’-the-wisps no-one mother-of-pearl sandwich-boards author-journalist no-one quizzing-glasses quizzing-glasses cat-o’-nine-tails emperor-president king-chairman fat-papped jack-in-the-box vice-chancellor collector-general’s peep-o’-day go-off stick-in-the-mud no-one libation-cum-potation forcible-feeble brother-in-law no-one go-off tripped-up non-intellectual non-political non-topical non-intellectual non-political non-topical non-compo end-to-end

poem || Jeff Harrison

Badgers' Rye  

they did bathtubs... & me? well,
me too -- we did bathtubs, they & me
your formality we perilously do salt
you inherit what hath serialized me

drink the badgers' rye, hey nonny
probe their scratches, cultivate their
reproach, may badgers' pinpointing be
pleasantly yours, yours & mine... ours...

3 poems || John Pursch

Embezzled by Loud Fish

  

All cardigans

may prove to be

tubular nunneries

in discursive geysers,

cradling asphalt pelicans

in palmistry’s swaddling

hominy crates,

assuming flashy axe men

don’t moon the voyeuristic

Mafioso’s tea server

before atonal pop stars

enjoy a fractured gesture

of dosage droves.

Not to pan for

impulsive wattage,

bulbous loops chip away

at pedestals of nubile

anchorwomen,

worming extradited

militia pox from castor oil,

embezzled by loud fish.

Scrimping on Plaid

Heaving to

bestial landmarks,

Styrofoam matrons

martyr crimson lipids,

limiting sartorial mavens

to concupiscent car doors.

Cubist ovaries combine

flossed gills to traipse

aground in gales befitting

pseudonymous cretins.

Wet suitors defang

a rusting tibia for

hobnail ramparts,

glowing with

traditional bleats.

Parables of cheetah breath

imbibe a racecar pleat,

scrimping on plaid.

The Softly Gelatinous Pier

Blocked scanners sniff

for mule-scream placards

of demonstrably frozen waste,

tipping torpedoed chimps in

valet haven sackcloth grey,

Crayola’s latest banished collarbone.

Hashing outer issues into fine sand,

leeward porticoes gently sell

assumption fog to campers by

the oratorical plover’s hyena gist,

sipping cheese and armory wax

in funneled donut clout.

She sits astride

a yawning stagecoach oven,

wafting in the smell

of humid expatriates,

sweetly singed by lullabies

of whalebone screeds

and criminal neglect,

seeding Chaldean overtones

in publican retorts.

Phylogeny excretes dumbbells

for sacrificial egress motes,

poshly reporting on monkey soup

beyond the softly gelatinous pier.

4 pomes || billy bob beamer

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esret nammanot csince

glibb rts yin dlfi barts

nit yag t zig ri outr whequat ere why ey eh?