Joshua Martin - 2 pieces

 Altered habits and routines

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MiSSed Connections SuPplanT

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Joel Chace - A Lesson

 She speaks the sentence.  Then, a

                                                                                          

student at the board writes, 

In English, there are three 

to’s.  Next one, …there are

                            three too’s. 

                                                                                                             Finally,…three two’s.   

                                                                                                  Prof:  “So, 

you see it?”  Usual 

     silence.  

“No one?”  

Usual blankness.

                                                            Prof

                          again:  “And how about

these:

                 ‘ I watched my mother 

   exhale for the final time.’  ‘My 

little boy looked up with his 

                                                                            sad face, and smiled.’  

‘We saw fog spread

across river flats.’”

                                                                                                                Usual

              inscribing in notebooks.

Morley Cacoethes - 3 poems

Pebbles Upon the Narrow Road II

She beckoned, and I could not settle down

to be possessed by the cobweb spirits

of they that all but deprive and sweep

away. The Barrier of wander.

There was mist upon the road,

and spirits close. When spring arrived

and the year was spent, I could not settle.

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Pebbles Upon the Narrow Road V

 

In a row, not doubt, to watch

until we were lost to sight. The first

of my friends standing ahead,

for when I looked we barely kept going

ahead, for when I looked back I saw

my journey, but I could look back.

I saw my friends standing this verse,

the first of my journey, but I could

barely keep going, barely keep ahead.

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Pebbles Upon the Narrow Road VI

 

In this year, the second of the era,

my thoughts take a walking to the future.

A thought somehow crossed my journey

to see places I had long heard about

but never visited. It did not matter if I

might take a walking trip all way

to a post-town which we were barely able

to come home alive to. Leaving this uncertainty

if I should be fortunate that I might take

a trip all way to decide, I pursued my journey

to me instead. I might somehow cross

my travels, for I want to seem to leave

all the way to reach the future. It does not matter

if I should be unlucky, for I want distant provinces.

Andrew Cyril Macdonald - Towards some new genesis

i.

Cosmic plans corrupt too quick 

when a sham plays its course of

mute divagations.  One should 

not entrust too much to get 

out of it intuitions.

Plans burst on staid patrols of

those lost causes we’re done with.

ii.

Creation’s tale foibles a

gain commenced with prejudiced 

remarks a race pronounces—

light impoverished left rich it

impresses as the salt to 

others tend the wound moral

justice if undone again.

iii.

Death’s endeavour denounces 

glad reprieves commencing.  Their

dark moments fashion the life

its steadfast defender Truth’s 

abandoned because of rifts

relocated under a 

false god’s notions placating.

iv.

Bled dominions forsake what 

was taken if outgrown them.  

Sad contusion before it

hearts plead for kingdoms unsung 

a god’s wealth induces.  Hap—

less the fault the poor make with

from all labours concluding.

v.

Of clay the groundswells repose,

the shift from soft to cover

the hardness collected.  Mute

form brings with affirmation

balance incurs composing

this ruse shadows hold back on

esoterically lenient.

vi.

The take of Time baffles all

nine universals chapters 

pretend for.  They deceive us

thirsting a dread conditions

pen.  Happenstance rendition

is twilight come down of starved

heavens their graves yet known.

vii.

Enigma pertains clothed encounter

a linguist’s announcement of

names crestfallen.  If dormant 

along steep unknowing then 

glad as once run silent it

profoundly voices inward

the god if grand denounces.

Tony Brewer - The Great Pause & Everything Immediately After

Do you want a new home robot?

you have a job to do

activated in there like a ghost

is the home it gets

with the mixtape & rock

shuddered to a stop my brother

no moon in the sky tonight for once

how long a year must wait

is revolution & battery & life

the time to work is close

the rest is what you want robot

Jeff Harrison - Ash Nozzle

controls and the horizon

    comes to the point

cubes     about response

       started down

a little differently

lightning-set went on

    swift search

            watertight

          towrope

liberty, resentment, function

       huddled masses

     (peak discontinue)

     process themselves

        halted near

     the peril murmured

         "take steps

     merciless playmates,

      they are restless

     expect a better one"

    Heaven specially created

        angle of

                 throw

       framework shuttered

           "...little consequence"

Nicholas Alexander Hayes - Ixionidae

 

(I)

Growths on blue lichen. Blue lichen growths

sloughing off in thin tufts. Sloughing

skin in crystalline 

chevrons.

Burroughs fermenting hog lice.

Burroughs cutting up vellum.

Blue lichen growths on vellum

sliced in chevrons.

Centauric legions in Dionysian fury.

Dionysian fury on the mammoth way.

Dionysian fury cutting up vellum.

Centauric legions like carbon

lattices spread, like

vegetation on desiccated

flanks.

Desiccated flanks sloughing

crystalline skin

woven in cirrostratus

patterns of spilled ink.

(II)

Fingers part flesh. Flesh beneath fingertips.

Embittered fibers separated. Embittered fingers

part radiant meat, forming derelict lips

drooling hog lice wine on cut-up

vellum. Simmering tissues seizing into

libidinal bands, cutting into the

plutonic mons. The plutonic mons

etched with crystalline chevrons

compromise composed of single bodies.

A second anus etched with crystalline chevrons. 

A second anus blooming in

solar ease.

(III)

Limp, limpid cock pops a

vein. Limp, limpid cock

between desiccated flanks.

Limp, limpid cock against

a second anus calling

Burroughs home on the

mammoth way. A neutrino

lattice forms from compressed

hog lice. A neutrino

lattice spreads like a

vegetative empire, snagged

in stagnant puddles.

Stagnant puddles polluted

with hair from

migrating centauric 

legions. from migrating

centauric herds. Puddles

polluted with blue

lichen growths,

sheltering the generation 

of blue bot flies.

(IV)

Tumult of blue bot flies,

tumult of event horizons,

tumult of crepuscular

conjecture.

Burroughs in Dionysian 

fury with Delphi’s

pythoness. Delphi’s 

pythoness drunk on hog

lice wine. Burroughs 

roasting forty feral hogs.

Radiant flesh roasting in

spermaceti reserves.

Radiant waves forming

derelict lips on the

plutonic mons etched with

crystalline chevrons.

A kaleidoscopic

mucus oozing from blue

lichen growths.

Rich Murphy - 3 poems

 Course Obstacle

Obstacles call for accessories

and designer zippers today:

Think Velcro for the elderly.

Challenges that would prod at

dreamland for tools and compensation

don’t enter into toy land heads.

Puffed men in stuffed chairs

altar the frivolous behavior

and the congregation kneels.

The nonbeliever scapegoat pool

pitch tents and needs and die

as designated off road vehicles

during the schlump movement

from recline to decline in America.

Morning stretches for soma-lax

professionals who finger keys

and move cursers around screens,

the game for the compound in exurbia.

Chased by the rising tides non-player

characters (refugees and immigrants)

drown in razor wire, rifle butts, and sun.

News lights up celebrities for fools.