poems || John M. Bennett

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nest of gizzards swirled
beneath my chair was that the
soup drain  ?my clinking ear dog
my loose gum my ,desk floating
in the afternoon its drawer of
turds and smoke  .so I was
coughing ,buey ,lomismo mas la
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from tjhe buried cave ;my
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of cracky off plat e crashe d
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foaming o’er ,ah the cloud
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suits’ splash lens ,snore
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contains the slumber light
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contains the crawling door
wind contains the wind
contains the nail constrained
hamster contains the hamster
contains the closet breath
moth contains the moth
contains inhaler of the rain
lint contains the lint
contains the curtains of your skin
suit contains the suit
contains the meatloaf’s moldy liver
hair contains the hair
contains the swallowed laundry
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the stinky bunny
next the clock next
the floating shadow
next the slug next
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next the sock next
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next the ladder next
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next the flock next
the dribbling thumb
next the headache next
the rotting leg
next the cheese next
the swallowed faucet
next the tongue next
the bloody sugar
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visual poetry || Noel Canlas

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poem || Edward Nichols

'THE MAGNETIC BALL"


Planet constellation in a magnetic ball gown. Kinetic subliminal out-power on a Granium bite flying beneath the Earth; intercontrolling the natural born species of a faraway radiation sun.

The metaphysical abnormalities cascading with lucre. Feel the Trilogy of infamy and the Robot. Pie squared instigations a mathematical revolution.

Dr. Dent-These new magnets are really great; the ground cycle reveerb mechanism is quite unique. Metaphysical reversion outfits for cable receptors; now, tell me this truth have you ever seen anything more fascinating.

The chairs somanblistic tirade beams the light in it's omni-directional purpose, crosssing the boundaries of physics; rolling in a non-physical universe.

His psychedelic frequencies pattern set a stake on the moon; it riveted in down play sure fired torque driven displays of shimmering electric pools. Space for the electronique gadget designed to frizzle the tube box.

poems || Peter Ganick

two orchestral syrinxes

1.
prerogerative with affect—
motion serves displacement whose foil 
terms ossia that scrutiny 
zoned and syllogistic.

another silence issued and tabled 
while adored skeletons
brush the painterly code—
an indication where suitable 
resists not clouds— 
nor a toehold on 
devolution’s moves—frailty exposed.

an offering so nattered 
in sequence 
residual proliferation enrolls 
touch-points 
not redundant therefore 
not equisse-blinded.

offerings of earliest gratefulness
once othered curates divine 
some remainder to frames 
so surplus exploits 
thoughtfulness in momentum—
so accrual pretends waiting replicators—
vanishing points—emotional cranberries—
the occasion of arrears 
tolerably culpable.

then suddenly an onrush threads 
wide and cursory a tread impounded to
resilient notions marooning voices whose
holidays fell thensome as replacement 
until vulnerability 
recuses voices in their scouting.

multiples proliferate—
an inquiry threads a theory
for palms’ adaptable wizardry—

flocks at nighttime returnees determine 
trends where bullet-proof 
illusions—trinkets—lockets—
are summary distancings.
 
plugged—stopped—graced 
with broken openings—
fluster in no attitude
an orgeuil threads waiting rooms 
from the sky 
courting its priorities so well.

empty accouterments wait on
evening samples—
descriptions wash away seashores 
lines for demarcation
pre or post what-have-you 
collating those torrentous 
settlements without wasted motions—
no palatial three and fours— 
no longer—
intent reflective 
of premises’ greeting.

2.
a swamp trills in thrall 
steering waters overboard—
the incurably keystone—
tolerable for togetherness—
wake to surmount inventions 
suppressive or academic.

when situated 
in nomine patris—
where sorties 
variegate from amazement 
not happenstances— 
those recumbent wash 
oversight to promontories vagaries—
preludes of a notocord— 
each specimen deaf to greeting—
skills of shards parallel other 
axles—their gradients 
flail echo-free.

these issues cause no
intransigence—witlessly parochial 
correction widely summarizes 
front mottos—

a glitter of reflection on pretense 
aside a river becalmed— 
a sprocket ‘s returnable contention—
sooth variegated amulets 
witness either silica or
surplus exegetes—
 
‘motions, all motions!’ stammered the flock 
from a pro tem ivory of choice—
networking treads deftly on curtailment 
befriending notions recasted so narrow—
switching to changeless possibilities.

poem || Edward Nichols

"ODD THINGS"

Germ whorefare sitting at the front reverbing string theories Sufforated metallic display, see through the darkness, the beginning. Creeping in a cosmic manner. A discordant manner steeped in strained chromosome, the seepage running in it's place. Right backwards the ceiling falls forward living living in parasitic dream. Metaphysical balloon floating above the water.

Interdimensional fixation tulelage resembling the corner pocket, celestial calculating beams, so the center releases the rising energy.

Wagner-Precalcute what isn't and twasn't it? The calculable numbers of the chomatic scale was aclaimed at the musical convention. I hear the dogged sidereal of atonal attention. The grinding leaflets answer the question of nature. The shutters run paralell to the paradigm, listing,  hearing, hyperperception, hypersonic, subconscioucly, symbratic embracement of tools to the higher selves.

visual poetry || Noel Canlas

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poems || John M. Bennett

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the shirt fruit the cash lurk the
stand foam the knife whip the wall
cream the loot suit the stung gate
the wish leg the map wind the
gack stool the wrung lap the scrawl
limb the meat watch the runt pail
the node lamb the wash grunt the
tall thunk the think shit the bell
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net cluster     nod the soap     let
dunger fly     )half shame(     soot
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the sink     my busted     dog hope
 
should half     link     the hole fire
cheese     )nor lumber(     fake dawn
the time the lice     crust     raving
drank     the mirror     )boats(     my
gut tank     gristle     loot     gun
 
shirter’s luck     mail     the nodding
foam     peel     neck     runny one
whistle     throne     my     slumber
gasoline     )bomb(     sandwich in   
the lake     my dusted bet     ducks
 
the crap     stall meal     swimming
fan     got business     shore cream
plodding     home     hash     lumination
broke glue     bowed test     my
clap issue     never asleep     naps



 
 
 
 
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hustled hill     I gag and     brink god
mumbled ,spoon     room     test     loot
shadow spume     the shoat     cagado
neatly     said grime     dunk storm     the
file     shot     grab     it     knock cloud
 
fine noose     my rest dog     luggage
blam vlam     wrestle     or skull     foto
time     wind shirt     the rained     eyes
knacky sorta     fungus mine     the
mind lint     epsom coughs     real
 
tossed a     head     brick     stain my
elbow     fissure table     sot tooth
rolling in the     seeds seeds     knew
moths     hull vacuum     the pestle
throat     flagger     dong knot     yes
 
torque fool     flossed my     bread
muscled pill     line tacks     or
spaghetti     peed corn     and diced
six holes     one     rotting leaf     mice
kiss your shorts     my stringy     face

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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1.enough that one does bring x
to a crime'd enterprise--eye
technology validates the
whereabouts walk around thubs
artifice of the space a large-scale
coordination past histories and reality
embed the web would should make all
except the world but steadily don’t tell any
cheers through the table preparing arranging
there picks something that lies beyond a worthy
cause lights place of the critic for a bodyguard
by need to tell what lies beyond the special
books and bare plots one who thinks says
the everwhen sky glass inverts style like an art look
sighs raise feet in cooperation with fear and gets tears
in southern return more read from even far off footwear
happily clacking away to a free egress and then say-er has
written above the entry on his attention dress fall in the bar the
bozo comes buzzing sounds of wheatrock from beds clawing the myths
falling from the seven doors of the historian's second most intricate fantasy
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in emotion fires
relearning how to spread
on all sides of the room
speaking like mysteriousness
magic sharp sound currents
form orbits worlds lost apparently
how do the subcraft with deep denial
doors open thoughts making large-scale
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poems || John M. Bennett

The Stream The Meat
 
my fog my sandwich gland my
user forced scratched the mirror
my eeling window mouth or
crusted spoons behind the fridge my
lists my long falls my ladder
crawling from the garage your
cans of tuna swelling like my
breath you swivelled in the
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costranalgas en mi mano el jugo
drogado la caca kako que perdía
en mis calzoncillos yes it was it
dragged my chew across the door your
seething throat me anda lucrativa
sorely shaped like burning cellphones
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on my watch reloj de agua quemada
)water up my flag water
up my corndog floater
water up my canine water
up my lunchless suitcase
water up my atl watered
up my plummet sock drawer
water off and water me las
cloacas en mi plan de ayuno
plan de shaking in my sugared
shorts and stops(  .stops


 
 
 
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nape luggage yr fangs depth yr
fangs’ debt my keeper lung and
torcida la mano ,soy ,sample of ,t
runt or ,should double coughing
in the sandwich wind circling in my
shorts  .the tooth stumbled the
mute fork twisting in the lint I
cracked “it” open closed “it”
with my sleeve’s enamel was my
hand fog  .dragged them grips a
cross the yawn and closed my
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The Wad Box
For Cecil Touchon & Picasso Gaglione
 
I looped my crown behind my
teeth I dogged and smiled
I aped my wallet like a
grunter fork  .scald the
lint and fester forth ,chir
ping in the parking lot a
box of gumwads ,twinkling
in the elevator with my
stapled nose  .I shat and
hopped ,mud and moon ,tumb
led past the crispy charms
you “see”  .lamer la lengua lodo
lo que ,lentes de obsidiana I
hooked my gown and lay my
face in the open lid

poem || Edward Nichols

General latitudes horse aroundlanguidly enticing the bereavement ofproper

 introspection.Unmtigated gall reflects the whole thing. Delighted

slippers reform a revolutionary vanguard.feminine side masculine side.

transcendental atonement seemed bent out of place.augmented

fifthssuperlatine polytonalisn rushing us before the youthfulness

Yellow engagement temperament allies with with the best SuperNovas' excluding .getting the lackadaisical  strawberry fields

 ninth seal opened forever lady space the directarate seals it with a kiss

tums stomache problems.Forfeiture include strange thought fields

Mordid generosity,sure they show you jewels.

Dr.Dent-Fall into this role and this is a glass onion, seperated forest, the absurdity of it all.

poems || Sheila E. Murphy

from 'Toccatas in the Key of D'


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Don’t sleep with anyone, just sleep.
I forward documents in place of each
Display of fact.
Give adrenaline a moment
To rush in before proceeding to sit back.
Quinine stamina portrays
The sum of personality’s inflationary
Puncture.
Case law regarding what?
Literature pulls in two
Directions stanced apart.
Leavens a brisk new feel
Pegged soprano prematurely 
With the feel of teenaged limelight.

36  
When food for thought is seeded,
A mind can be uplifted
To the softest ceiling anyone would know.
The best defense is a defense.
The major shift begins to dry.
One glandular opinion makes the other writhe.
Whatever pilgrimage enlivens will have weathered
Gestures foisted on the frontline saplings
That accrete the warmth of hands.
How many stories high are novice notes?
How many springtimes will it take to cancel happiness?

37  
Wings limber down stilled leafage dried on impact.
Several reports later,
Integers mix well with rubbed
Words, sacks of peat.
I’m almost new enough
To bear this century.
The sticks draw what still seems a film.
No matter how creative, we align with
Hesitation and pursue the endless straightedge
Of continuo.
Apprenticeship recedes amid the darkness.
Long retention simmers the way rafts do,
Steadfast in their corridors.
Some plumes seem to get wet.
Modesty as an olfactory divestiture comes home to roost.
A silhouette in time staves off the parables
Still close to burgeoning.
Hectares eke out modest dues.
A fortnight is sufficient time to have your justice blessed.   

38  
Sun is sweating its indulgence. Clothes rival
Weather slowly crystallized as pace of sweet. 
This fierce retraction of mudguard 
Leaves a weak shine drizzled over forest,
That rescinds a cool encumbrance.
Admittedly, the cream goes pale on waitlist
Half imposed. I want a wild pen to intrude upon
A thatch. A furrow, landslide, safe sex
In latitudinous apartment. Steeds
Leave home without us. Savage
Play goes out for war. The little people
Render our collaborative incompetence. We rise
To the indelible occasion.

39  
Pagination lies in state. The fortress beams 
Collective bric-a-brac until some smoothness
Dulls the edge of pacifist divulgence.
Wheat germ plays the hood for folderol.
No matter whose bed, this is certain
Paradise. A sunful of broad lane-
Changes white for lanky weeds
And stainful tolerance the more you winter here.
The more you take back what you said, 
The more a nerve is pressed. As if 
To fabricate some manger dust 
Of reason closely held. 
To keep a resonance intact. 

40  
We sprang into a forcible rapport
As though our cupboards depended upon
Reconciliation. Some couples renounce
History, in service of a gentle future.
Instant replay is a threat no one
Would willingly allow, apart from being paid
To watch and catch and relay
In the direction of the skid. No loss
Is quite worth earning, and
The sooner something round is caught,
The better sales in stands will be.
Weather often buffers relaxation,
Thus preventing anyone from being
Too far in the mood, due west
Continuing magnetic inching toward
Pacific young horizons.
 
41  
Sacrifice means you loathe a part of you
That can be given back.
These materials my theory practices
Release in water ankle deep,
As laundry. Sheets torn to
The size of easel pieces, smaller than
Hymns swollen with hurt that made them.
Why are optimistic forecasts near-term minded?
How do cares begin to while away
Our time, your time, cool butterflies
Absorbing their maturity,
With evolution pumping head games?

42  
Semicolons lapse into will points
With a texture shaming to the eyes
As axioms have been bequeathed,
One’s innocence is frayed. 
So many brackets, face left, 
Match sparse quantities.
A chaperoned small citizenry.
Approaches unconnected morsels.  
Whose pure, assorted pulse 
Is given unconnected, to the various
Thin stems. Each destined
By pro forma articles of tapestry, considered
Text where stones connect to coffers. 
The conch of reproduction
Strewn and watered once.

43  
See the grain of lark go by
Just out of range,
Blinking residue of fame gone nimble 
In a row of cataracts.
Here are my albumen underlings.
Moths that ride the lake,
Drizzle in a cup of moonlight
Bearing opulence to antidote the lack 
Of reasons monstrosities occur to us. 
We wear a favored nation stratosphere 
To keepsake where the live ones like to stay. 
All ration long, we lore our way to treasures 
In the brine and bog of silverware.
Is this the coast reputed to be clear?
Tell every one of us how this relates to salsa
Noticed in a dream whose worthiness had gone. 
I’ve kept my measure of the bargain.
Now the burden of producing some collateral
Is on your neck and shoulders.

poems || Jim Leftwich

sidestep

sidestep clearing house no chance delirium
televised variable hatrack yard sales
quivering vacancies business as irascible
mouse catchers dream aslant encyclopedic
miniature sunburns annihilated birthmarks 
nonetheless compartmental cadaverous
birdhouses diverted echolocation
mitigates daily toxins
once upon the gore ohm muttering during hamster

04.26.2011





kinesis

bucolic moonlit fastidious kites
arranged diaries uninhabitable disembark
how dare this brewing newly in midday
hurry up
let's gargle with sunspots

simmering berm eyelids meiosis
subtract hazards heist akin to radar
don't bet on it
no matter the sugar in a garfish hat

mule-deer cola
mollusk under golem
muzak of meek gizzards
etched limerick unmasked
hashmark gobbling mull

bit by bit the hidden valleys are diminished
soul is the edict of work

04.26.2011




our none

our none lung gulls machete
what a thumb lanyard vestigial
cantilevers elastic and daring
dog days at the bankers accordion lore
belies dust susurrus ziggurat 
attentive harpoon seance
everted evergreen magic markers
harbors beribboned assonance
not yet the advent of lotus birds
unclear uncial uncouth undercover unclean
vermillion vacation in Cancun
we are bigger than that air conditioner 
such a camaraderie of sexy bums playing kickball
however lake akimbo muddier than the eyelid devil
what size is the sailboat
how cute is the hardhat
what kind of deal and why so soon

04.26.2011




or radicalized

or radicalized darkness is imminent but tease 
the nose with a hazardous den of needs
mantra lobes molotov cocktails at the zoo
quaint delinquent hacienda outside qualitative
windows dead-eye clarity and razor-sharp 
gardening are splintered neatly arranged
in queues from here to India
so far but not so good
and not so fast either
dogs bite tire then bite each other
it is not the fate of the dog to kick the tire
then ride off into the sunset over Denmark
with a hat on like john wayne or ronald reagan
how can we even begin to believe it

04.26.2011

poems || Vernon Frazer

Lasting the Laugh


Cheese-laundering epithet ladles
scream barker's tush. Insomnia pellets
on the four-ply footage denounce

cataleptic mortgage rates, expect 
mispronounced baggage cart schisms 
to predict a flurried glory that pleases

centurion banners of empires past.
Archaic phrasing in the moment:
time recesses its playground constraint

until class distinctions progress,
a mean regression. A leaking grotto
seeks a known genuflection, its patter

a rather substantial vagary rephrased.
With lantern button capsules bearing 
water, no gunwale left to reflect on 

surface matters, none so much as 
concrete ladles. Wandering thumbnails 
hatch before the rise of yeast cakes:

a newly prescient vision, jodhpurs 
a tact against leverage cleavers overall,
maintenance-free cackling aside. 



A Place of One’s Owning


Radio clippings barter the low cascade.
A centrifuge leaks pandemonium faucets
in mottled currency, urgent parallels cleft 
as shown. The temblor brackets read 
the floor’s vibrato cache under headlines 
left to quell the urge for renewal.
Where vacant seats its overload, 
a carrion tractor slipping past elastic
memories shipped the bottled martyrs 
left to pledge. The ruminant oasis
flipped legends clipped as shadow mirage 
on back order. Appliance as rectitude magic 
unadorned or pasted as mentor glue to 
lower facets afforded explication. 
Their plangent sweeps prolonging underdone 
infusion, plasters where diadems sleek their 
slow fascination, near a shadowed ambuscade 
shipping radial chart meetings. Huge as 
emblematic coruscation packets darting 
dead urges to toboggan souffle, poseurs 
who distance head shredders from tumorous 
avocations rip cartilage ballads from the shaking 
numbers at flay in the peals of the board.
Anomalies lipping faster cackles clear to
starter tomes, grip readers by the home
cudgels near tracking levers that cleave
serpentine urges from pleasured flesh crones.
Verging, medically approved saturation pits
urge diagnostic threaders, eye-point needles
through varicose paternity. A lavish spread
eagled outward to semblance leaders
packeting the fabric called home to place
fireside crackles alongside amusements 
parked in the neighboring pit. Ferret hues 
come unglued at the stammer. Whistles in the night 
forebode the telling murmur, a half-sea dread 
regal as the perch of bottled urgency whose 
natal settings cast in a single stanza left to graze
the stagnant meat of its heart-felt emporium.



Conviction Currents


institutional hot sauce reckoning
grenadines hopscotch nettles
at the forefront rampaging sonata hats
akimbo or double-diced offware
pension for uplift seeking a madrigal key
marking acrostic memory stitches
pecked against a sidelong zeitgeist
ranchero deluxe its garnished fervor
embargo stuffing clatters the mildew
ointment assures a polish as dawn
encroaches the medium spittle mat
shattered oblong grating conundrum
after mast polish inures the dated
regimen its sought-for outburst
against an obsolescent totem urn
martial carts flip under bottle flays
a coarse admixture in mid-chorus
reclaims scattered mañana sculptors
ingenue ventricular rerun habits
a coastal lingerie in galley pursuit
bending caribou nostrums to force
the hitching trine to angular caster
a reflection’s eye turned fixture din
tying felt to limbo swizzle tricksters
guiding the putt-line shift hiding 
mantra shifts against the wind

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poem || Peter Ganick

from 'It's Only Po-E-Try And I Like It'

as graded thisness 
once apparent toccata 
compulsion terra 
firma the nostrum 
parallax-frozen at rue du chasm, 

the cigna 
optionalization menace of 
site ciel du soin 
thiamine woofer 
abatement where 
sty integers noted alcemical 
personist 
vascularity epsilon the 
hostages reinforce tenderfoot 
blast intense nth circulatory vessel.
timidly aprille those baking 
eras othmar, 


vritti in salaam 
tachyon’s empathy sleeveless, 

intent aromatic elevatorial 
borers intersection’s alertly aprille 
those suctioning laertes 
notification-structures 
then root taurine alternatives, 

tiller cogent integrative 
melancholy papyrus 
estrange docility broken earth 

en route the opacity 
[planetary cardamom] 

test mouth ravine 
oppressive loot nova rebus 
collectivity akarmic, 

an impossible animation 
flurries theatrical bituminousity 
there iseult in daphnis 
deterrent guru 
saline rare aromatic 

levitation excellentation 
merging mercy those predator, 

noesis battened.

skirmish at scrimmage, 

no rebus precariously omnibus 
that signature’s evidence 
noteworthy alert initial mp3 
nuptial varsity occasion tote 
alright nutshell 

teardrops butane signatures 
elixir from method 
isness as pallor tariff clouded 
integral spot hammering 
alienation slackly obese 
there sigh evincing tectonic 
early night those

recalling cerulean the 
dander polity eachness once 
ceasing 
the strings of persistence 
non-agent density as 
foible thorough einsam, 


there instrumental 
occasion nibbling.

gallows thought inertia 
leicester psalmist ovation 
reiki kudos 
therein alfredo thematic 
syllogistic laughter 
otherwise curious there 

flinging streetwise notices 
there there language 
resist energic literal network 
bolt in hammock utterance 
whose utterances, 

the fabulousity 
more memento tariff 
racheting edit motions 
whereas fulsome regrouping 
each notatione 
arhoolie silica degree 
in attitude genovese governance, 

stubby hammertoe airport 
lavish those prehensilar botega 
iterative where 
silence nowhere invented.
is as in theory to locate 
nth signature each orgueil 
tampered where inverting 
ceilings of deposed motions, 

candor either each isles 
to rehearse a nottingham 
bristle rem sleep ram speed, 

nth holiday nil crocus 
avails coherence thatness 
once shallow terrific tenement, 

a so various than 
tossing congregating 
through across termite latte, 

stunt otherwise 
already notification where 
schemed unroll bagatelle 
[nounal chrysalis depending.] 

so argot inward term
offering counterfeit treatments, 

in centuries’ 
thematic libertine signatory 
to is muscle 
that tiens notification 
salvo that siren 
liaison brilliantine 
ach ein sample intensity 
epater les boutiques thoroughly 
ontologically apex of for 
wandering silently 
somatic embryo.

barnacle throes nth vatic 
edam itness were thesis 
seen altima tendencies those 
surplus excesses, 


than sign sigh 
signaling where dweller 
lineates an environment 
paper-trail mob 
moon song itness 
where stymies nutshell 
of proem toast occasionally 
rename, 

leicester parliament 
portmanteau iridescence 
pristine vacation melody.

poem || Keith Higginbotham

Emptied and Threats
 
the devil and who has    turn into he was to    finished one and let me fires
are occulted by Independence Chapped cracked hands of car
 
windshield wipers slips words warnings beguile not smirk the deluge
jumping from spires of evil more to say
dealer
Calcium sulfate addict will always weep.
 
The magician the city under start another
that is get me outta translucent
arcs of water post, security's have come and the beginning of unfair" 
and "Miss longer looked after sea
like Scylla and bring this forest made to mask.
 
Until gone so slow toy of my childhood
Constitution of the deep blue achievement jargon
Back-mapped, scripted, catalyst
 
Subjective objectives that upon a pawn.
The home Wild West rules I will watch files
jail cells them         Pink words like water
Doused Rain pummels roof from above
 
why they were my clothes like Fries,
Free Lunch is gone.
Now the woods spot me stopping the back, snack my axe and about 
the pasturing so have nothing me and you    Telling as the forests cigarettes
One more second bit more cleaver
The skyscraper throne dulled, straight-forward stare
Musings fed to the reach high and done buy Jane from chalk dust
Covering body
Wedged between aggressors and bloodshot.
 
This text at revolutionaries
Systemic perpetuation of another
splashing gleefully as on chemical burns to choose my higher
watching his sensation must chop down words
the angels come more ream of good thought I retort
but for Twizzlers and Hot when..."
Word walls and data and numbers come and gone,
just recede and continue vainly reach for rainstorms were a axe will sing the bus fare
"Life's book and must strawberry puke in do not dissipate
Chemistry to its knees
between timelines, art's freedom and gone one puddle to but smile
Greater than and modified daily my road at pack
One more box splatters
Unicorn bile and of pencils that the frosts have facts
Steadfast hope to paper clipped and rest have come here"
I teach and you
The shards of think up to expels them, pass/fail of demon's and too
Say this one all his trees
to a messy coke say to make both allow me the shit?" Oh one place I on this spot
with will never be awake from sleep.
This voyage.
"we will know throw away
Are no was the promise mountains will continue last
 
Sheriff's abandoned Mornings smell like neon pink
Sickly sweet axe in hand the book and lesson's drama as another dawn,
just as paper like smuggled keep
but the frost the way they the birthplace of empires.
 
Tumble weaves the people finally to yawn.
The Sun craving one more a moment the

poems || John M. Bennett

Grinder
 
the pestle     sunk     the knife     roof
malt ladder     oh     chain of     leaving
sand and spew     my holt foot     uh
halt?     knot knack     naw     spell
slump a     mile     triste     the
tryst     turned the     sandal
down     the toilet     a gun fog     a
mess of     crickets     frying     on
your plate     )nest of moon(     to
piary     píopío     )nodding(     flat
and slack     stop and sock     (net and
no                                    (



 
 
 
 
Was Nuts
 
blank pool     or luggage     knot
lint     passed tense     sugar     the
fart     light     casserole     next the
toilet     smoldering table     the chair
of hair     the shoe of steak     fissure
collapse     that scar     your birthday
suits and notes     sham whistle     gun
mote     )a word(     toodle away!
)should the soap(     dribble from your
eye     I cashed     the faucet     string


 
 
 
 
Cracked Bottle
 
the     bottle of water     sinks     my
step shirt     laps     ton of     waste
loop     core of cash     the sleet     node
I spell     the faucet     key     shoulder
time whistle     the log gate     wet tooth
the red sneeze     my shot of     sangre
speaking sun     a fog     shorts     stiff and
dried     pelting wind     a corn shone     a
pizzle     spooned     my armpit     dan
cer     dan     ger     dan     k     soda     sp
illing     in     the     basement     light

text || Andrew Topel

from 'war'

in July jury golly glee gutsy gal fully noble able calm build grim angrily guile miles kale filming kills help kilo kilt tilted tom kelp vanished canalization nasalization alizarin learn zircon Aaron’s apron zero yarn earn picaroon heroes czarina carbon cartoon yearn zircon siren iron sermon stirring roan room of Ron’s inner linen baron zoon maroon axon validation aviation allegation laudation libation dilation legation location ideation iodine ration fiction nation dating diatom edition action caption anion agitation animation alliteration instigation animation panelizing vanishing penalizing paralyze canalizing vanillin vanishings noising laser blazing glazed blitzing spat sprite fire prints pits of rates surprise eyes prêt liking the vend vexed vicars insetting the nest in sighting riot chanced nuke of the ink capes duke exits death oath health eats itch connation plotting near set ten or feet despite the depth of the deli lid mat spit urn the strut up the crept triplet belt duster clang sassy masses headed dread-locked runoff photo goat imploding any dead dude read thud’s stop rebutted gut hebetated shatter matter sciatic hymnal retina gymnast tomcat tomato tenant yenta mynas inmate mat inapt moat gnat math meat ant fate ghetto after often coffin hopping coughing coffee fete knight hunt grunted loftier lifework faro narrow hegira arrow angry hyrax nagger dragon dagger anger strange danger pain tyro syrup gyro city gift caddy gofers tofu citric fury free knee cattery milfoil bovver deific terrific specific shudder shedder shoddier body armor eggfruit flop lifer equity asset assemble quietly hate nylon inure airy jury kelpie dopey valley roper hole copy video halved yuck trucker jejune kluge clue fewer dew drops chopping mopped up supper cusp rupture unit entry went unearth sent inert burnet entrap net entree nerd forte egret frets forty grates rich truth rhythm which roughens rye or toughens eye my reecho youth ayah juju hush ought yacht hug them hues um hub ohm 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fifty grates haughty dingy hurdle exert hurt yogurt girdle rusty gut gust shirt gory story time angry stranger dangle night binger stingy hanger burger bang sting hunger night all right grit jar jerk humid juicy loose sonic jonick joy conic tonic join music Yurok quirk logic yak unyoke await audio gone awry butyric ruin sand dune weak waif waves of slaves wail still stale hale quick wise poke joker chin kilo phenol china hail rhino chaos cruel drool viol idle idol violent violin chain hypo real riddle howl yon lob old owl oil clock lion stilt literature lilac llano silt in Idaho silly ion limo groan lid lit coin oil polio slot plow role how now brown cow goal plop copper loci focus thrum hummer thyrsus third bird read afford the reward weed ear weld we’ll need red led beads leader bleeding end mead meet meat cleaver ahead said aced aside salad seed bashed bias casket basking fake take-over basted last stretch sketch set fugato etch fret let glitch letch get lethal leech gut pet goat poet petty piety riot ketch agent ages diet depth duet dogteeth frog digit beget breath method eighth gothic yeti vetch a veto wretched zeta zest settee getter gestate agitate genet septet accept general gateau extent resetting state resistance retreat exegete defeat petite geeks etcetera kentia light guru hound ghoul hush gushier gauche gomuti Mohawk unhook goshawk hulk sheik hunk tusk haiku chunk cook husk munch nifty infinity means more than months stunts growth crunch mini-men splendid knife ninths snuff nun nonfat tough ninja inch simple chef muffin gruffer if shaft was a bad mother oh brother where art thou chow down town fine wrench fence dine the way hey net needy neighbor nay shay weigh zither she slithers hither piney rye pity hype pie pyre jive five jaybirds line sly apple pie lime chewy hairy cherry carry mushy mustard leotard on guard edify eighty humid humans pupil juicy pumice physic aerobic phobic Buick laptop lotto slot optic option kept the captor ruptured torture pot stop piton spit knitting raptor spittoon saloon sand dune gloom enemy nominee mange hang infer monk pond expanse mansion knee knife me fee freedom need me enough foe row your boat fedora adore federal era derris dare us cadre acre aching learn karate germ maker steer mere merit inkers neural okra numeral uno nerd thirty words splurge urgent gurgle sergeant undo no onion bunions bonier bunker ankle faker Ferrari funeral take baking cankered cancers cohort concert dancer concern burned pinker joker poker encore general inquiry requirement Eskimo enter thinking sincere sinkers sneer pinch an inch kereru Nero career ear drum learn to redraw carrot cadre faders tax evasion invade Darth Vader tomb raider bag rug bug bogey dirt earth heart spurt start carting cardigan again cardinals swimming bah right bite your tongue hunger pangs blame hicks milk hiccup jay okay mink mike joy sly miry jell-o joke spark hi-jinks hijack intellect coach cloak encroach on cola coma coda Motorola leak coat coaxial cable fable unstable tables oak hack aunt arm active tactics in the attic loop hope the rope lopped slobber copper spot on lobster mobster foggy through chary hair don’t tarry carry the cherry shrew throw shoe through flute flue grew grids slid the eye lids horsy sharp harrow arrow narrowly rids arty air cry gray ray bakery Bagri agriculture vultures cry in the pigsty key rye we wax axes access axis skidoo voodoo kudos kiddies doing judo kukri skid khakis due idiot idiom kin slim trimmings kilo dye kit slitter fritting knitter prier die primo limo Yoko Ono bios I did bid on a bird amidst medium media that zipped my lip piper spied jape applied pliers prior liar rip the little nipper sipping clippers clapper gypped yipped hippie tipped big dipper mapped a moped giddy ditto gap tattoo gadoid Polaroid buddies bedim Judie adios Eddie Vedder cheddar cheese vendetta tender blender sending ideas clip like lion slip limp lisp flip olio blimp blip kiap like a cop lopped off the loop trooper 

poems || Jim Leftwich

2:16 AM

harms damage silken bivouac photographic skeleton
decades of syllabic sonograms dance 
assorted rebellions belated
amortize the voyage
hamburgers dabbled dharma and deadlines
kneaded read tints and orderly darkness
beneath transliterated finitude
stark edicts confabulated bulk hissing along the magical
silence inclement ceilings
elsewhere garrulous and elongated
toxic amethyst totality
vibrations variable catastrophe
azure olio bird torus saddled adages
do not validate the unheard sayings
devilish and idyllic duplicate
burdens brute tunnel of swans
ash mob baffle storks evict
howling serpentine milkshakes
buzzard with a hatchet
variant cilia clear and dangles will

04.25.11


12:10 PM

count on every rebirth to take an hour
or even more another forked onion
assumptions of unitary cunning
some of the muscular mummies
are as quiet as teflon insomnia
under the aqueducts
in the ubiquitous fairylands of the sun
show show show show  show show show show
show show show show  show show show show 

show show show

show show show show  thee thumb tumbler
in the flaming laundramat the nouns are 
token keys tease the pestilential ennui 
but quibbles kabbalah found coat-hangers 
card stock boots filled with bouillon on 
parade around the may pole as dire as it 
is ironic day dreaming vowels oxygen 
benchmarks eaten by yak  waxwing  birdlime

04.25.11


monday

barely negated vitamin hijinks
notably gray robber barons
positron the unfulfilled relaxation
as laborious landscapes vast
and ticklish such harbingers
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wastelands and suffixes
nadir kilometers toxicity
desalinated circumference
cacophonous outrage outcries
quantify iconic icicles
oval diaphanous rubble
if only the oiled eye would say so
but no
no balancing act no fishing and
no shoes

04.25.2011

poems || Sheila E. Murphy

from 'Toccatas in the Key of D'

20  
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To team with polished flagstones,
Tiny print and carpet,
Pink moor folding closed condolences. 
The wreckage of assembled points begins
Rebuilding sun stripes, one color or two, 
Upon the utile plants’ matte flesh. 
Preposition remains accidental, various and
Crafted along ruthless premises.
This afternoon of rote 
Offers semi-precious leisure 
Magnified to last another season. 
The jet stream has logged many hours, 
Surviving relay’s mileage
In the distance by degree.

21  
This is home, with fish oil, sanctity, replacement
Therapy. Abrupt encyclical disjunction,
Thirty years to life.
An episode connotes the space in privilege.
Pawns trill evidence of upper registers
Gone wrong. With nothing changed. 
No partial print. No first 
Coat of paint. Barometer 
Of written pressure and precise.
The tangled ossified new bloat of ice
On different days. Some practical lamps
Whose glare goes watched over 
The night’s linoleum, made responsible
For what is loathe to shelving Pavarotti
High into the rippling trees.
 
22  
Birth glows within an afternoon.
A person of upbringing soft and slow
Who moves among the mis-en-scene with clayfeel
In and out of pockets situated close.
Boards rise, etchings nominate the world.
Impactful Rotterdam bequeaths apocalypse 
To drown out edifying speech.
Our elders shackle many fellows from
A raconteur one may not trust.
Apart from silence there are options:
To clothe and feed the mighty,
To render impotent lane changers,
To coast through life in a vacation mode,
A remunerative shred of past tense 
Seething with intent to fraternize
During deliverance.

23  
Give me your blind blue nervous system,
Once clinically dead and then mysteriously
Wheeled in to what I am / immune to.
A failed line of sight where energy
Is passed over scenery.
Sunshine spills across the arms
Of hearts buried in books.
Stipends fall into unlikely hands.
Evaporation easily sustains the river.
Voyeurs take back things unseen.
Long vast space worn into steamed lace.
By now, narration clarifies
A distance in the year of talismans,
The few pitched crumbs of niacin
Separate from a hold that line approach.

24  
If echo had a mercy curve
We would admit we love the night.
We would endure no less than fight song enmity.
To wit, an argument smalls forth what we are under.
Some days she swears there is a loose plot.
At chosen moments, she asserts
She’s not responsible.
And is apt to leave the fault line to rejoin
The cleavage where we work.
Retaining grace of tone fields,
Taken from a nearby Rococo 
Attending to invention as a consequence 
Of where the cinders cap the lot. 

25  
Carvings left by water lose the thought of water.
When autumn sings it is a flute print
Whittling shrill air.
Now radio intrudes upon a scalar silence.
Dance shaves loam of happenstance.
No bother to awaken tufts of camisole
Or crew-necked mild invasion.
“Such good air” the wheezes in the hovercraft
With bees and butterflies.
The motor sheds its practice
Toward forthcoming winter.
Cauterizing clumps of sores awaiting balm.

26  
A remedy is one kind of neglect.
The cult of hero atrophies our unity 
Until shared repertoire is nil. 
One struts toward projected finish line
With steel-cut cavalry dispatched 
Toward mother lode,
Postponing a full reciprocity 
That might have healed, 
Off-shore rim shots, 
Whose missing cameo appearance 
Revokes the show.

27  
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Spawned virtual cadenzas of investing.
Reputation simply glows when
One has done too well.
A thriving comes to pass . . .
French word for mushroom 
Blades its way into the language.
Inked lines coast to crumbling.
Problematic distancing of cross talk
Wide into the generous true woods.
Selective service primes prognosis.
What is time
But an extension of the craft of stasis?

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from 'EXISTENCE"

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poem || Jim Leftwich

Easter 2011

nevertheless as knees to burnt visit 
bullets on the gazebo
aorta weft curlicue rejuvenated
hazardous zoology canopy
a hiss of tinted malaise
the moon wheat needles
lullaby tables laugh
diabolical and verbal is not vertical
polkadots decrease
no sun ax today at alter
their game eyes and their knee deep
simmering only negations asunder
belabors absolutist keening
cumulative hiatus unedited
never tamed eliminations pockmark
half answers in lark and bile
now and again ink inches hereafter burnt
below inhabited sarx cymbals largesse
habitual against nearsighted gardens
vast as silage gurgles
no such repetition as the tongue of signs
lasts asterisk nonsequential water mark 
oddly vinegar and costumed severance
shamanic habitually destabilized
kilometers brusque scar of sea lions
quick as kinetic suture ebbs
surname haggle and hacienda
handlebar briers
barracuda buttered novel and unkind
diagonal nexus axiomatic roadmap
engenders a delicate flag

the taxi only comes once

quantum and linear laws of duration

but years

at last

driving through the liminal ricochet

miles of fuzzy mud and footfalls

shadows divided in an open box

a lake of burnt buttons and necklaces

skulls
oleander
alphabets

plastic bags
marbles
wax

they
say
encroach

fingernails
traffic lights
spare ribs

catnip
garlic
cigarettes

nearly defenseless
nevertheless
turbulent

dovetailed
triangulate
dissolve

04.24-25.2011

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haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Bark marks nabbed the tree. What do you know of time?
A datum lingers, though not very (limber). Trawl is what to make
of an old watch. There's a name for this. Using Ebay, you can
furnace through the parts. Neuralgia mates with absence, 
sipping absinthe on account (of). A foray toward one of means. 
(With) Legend has it you are brittle just beneath the cloth. 
An architect, a moth, the sole decedent. What have you (been doing). 
Whose interrogation mark is left to outer coating. Now is the time 
for all (good). In a lenten foray, many of the hangers-on draped 
weeds across a school. Where no one picked up (on) the child. 
Inhabitants drifted through wind referencing the lack of stress. 
And stretched their pale imaginations across tentacles and manacles 
and mandibles and oracles and rinsed free sheets to wind chimed pace. 
The impresario gave credence to vocabularies spoken in the way the 
lariats seem freely singed. 

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upon snow light

Sheila E. Murphy

text || Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

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poems || Vernon Frazer

Dangerous Crossing


Parallel non sequiturs
shed the flood through the parking lot.

Varicose mending ventures appended, 
vintage bedding renewed the coastal parvenu 
dicta vented, nothing gained predicted. 

Starting geometric 
departure, a pain of veiled suture parlance: 

cross lines rend fury latches.

Where they meet 
either occurs or does not
under the cost 

of pendant blood
following the script past narrowed horizon 

eyes.
A mate of visions, pursued
or perused,

led the bloody crossing: renewal
as occidental cleavage bottoms
to bundle the gathered rest 

In cord or fire
the avenue crossed their timid blink




Unsettled Music


Impetigo sunset cradles
harbinger’s delay. The slow 
Rialto tuning stays wet longer. 
The decay pitches forward, 
a sonic relay caroming toward 

yet. Another cavalcade, 
stronger than any orbital 
impedance on the forecard, 
grooms an aftermath’s disarray.
The fingers toward fatigue 
woes below sunset rising. 
The end is near

the corner hatch. There, 
the prophetic mourners play 
moonrise sonatas that echo 
behind the wall of a feral 
ligature slowly tied to fugue 
statements calling to restore 
the oral template saga. 

Hearing chromatic temples 
chants where murmurs linger. 
Canonical rapture etudes
the clearing. Its haste replays
the dawning pace of somatic unrest. 

text || Peter Ganick

from 'EXISTENCE'

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O0>I-c>k |>  || oI =2> XL =PZK+3b  -o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I-c>k |>  || oI =2> XL =PZK| c> xl =pz| >  |> y= o| +     o0>- |   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=b> xl =pzk=  |=  |i |e |>-o +-> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I > XL =PZK> ||oi |e |>-c>k |>  || oI =2pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>pl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0-o +-> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I > XL =PZK> ||opl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> |   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=h+ 0> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I+=o| c> xl =pz| >  |> y= o| +     o0>-pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> | c> xl =pz| >  |> y= o| +     o0>-i |e |>pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> -c>k |>  || oI =2+- > xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I => XL =PZK> ||+ opl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> e2- +1.0 =o> ||pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>b> xl =pzk=  |=  |pl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzkpl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0-o +-> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I > XL =PZK> ||opl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> |   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=h+ 0> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I+=o| c> xl =pz| >  |> y= o| +     o0>-pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> >k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzk -c>k |>  || oI =2+- > xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I => XL =PZK> ||+ o>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzkpl| >     >> xl =pzk= >k |>  ||= ||   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I> ||pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> >k |>  ||h+ 0> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I+=pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>b> xl =pzk=  |=  |pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>>k |>  ||> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=h+ 0> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I+=>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pz| >  |> yc>k |>  || oI =2 pl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=h+ 0> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I+= > xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>b> xl =pzk=  |=  |>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzk|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>| >u xl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0e2- +1.0 = o> ||pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>b> xl =pzk=  |=  |h+ 0> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I+=>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzki |e |>-c>k |>  || oI =2 > xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I-c>k |>  || oI =2>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzke2- +1.0 =pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>| c> xl =pz| >  |> y= o| +     o0>- b> xl =pzk=  |=  |pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>> ||pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>b> xl =pzk=  |=  |pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> b> xl =pzk=  |=  |pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>> ||pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>b> xl =pzk=  |=  || c> xl =pz| >  |> y= o| +     o0>->k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pz| >  |> yc>k |>  || oI =2 > xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>| >u xl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=o |   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=h+ 0> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I+=pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> b> xl =pzk=  |=  |i |e |> -c>k |>  || oI =2+- > xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I => XL =PZK> ||+ opl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> >k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzkii +>k |>  ||022 +o0+=ii +>k |>  ||022 +o0+=> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I-c>k |>  || oI =2> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzk|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>Iopl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0 -c>k |>  || oI =2pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>-c>k |>  || oI =2pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> ii +>k |>  ||022 +o0+=ob> xl =pzk=  |=  | ii +>k |>  ||022 +o0+=b> xl =pzk=  |=  |o-c>k |>  || oI =2—>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzkpl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0 pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>pl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=b> xl =pzk=  |=  |o| +     o0> >k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzki |e |>-o +-> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I > XL =PZK> ||oi |e |>pl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0  -c>k |>  || oI =2+- > xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I => XL =PZK> ||+ opl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>+3b  -o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I-c>k |>  || oI =2> XL =PZK> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I-c>k |>  || oI =2> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzkb> xl =pzk=  |=  |> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I> xl =pzkpl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>| c> xl =pz| >  |> y= o| +     o0>- |   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=h+ 0> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I+=pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> -c>k |>  || oI =2o|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>Iii +>k |>  ||022 +o0+= >k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pz| >  |> yc>k |>  || oI =2> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I> xl =pzk>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzkb> xl =pzk=  |=  | pl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0o-c>k |>  || oI =2pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>pl| >     >o| +     o0>+= > xl =pzk0-o +-> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I > XL =PZK> ||o-c>k |>  || oI =2>k |>  ||> xl =pzk   +o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>IO| +     O0>> xl =pzk|   op| ->K |>  ||> xl =pzk=i |e |>b> xl =pzk=  |=  |pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |> pl| >     > =+2>k |>  ||i |e |>+3b  -o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I-c>k |>  || oI =2> XL =PZK+3b  -o -> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I-c>k |>  || oI =2> XL =PZ| >  |> Y| c> xl =pz| >  |> y= o| +     o0>--o +-> xl =pzki |e |> = +O| +     O0>I > XL =PZK> ||ob> xl =pzk=  |=  |o-c>k |>  || oI =2-c>k |>  || oI =2

poems || John M. Bennett

Upper Neck
 
fondle the laundry while brimming
fondle the doorknob while spinning
fondle the ash while knowing
fondle the towel while sleeping
fondle the brick while counting
fondle the deck while growling
  
 
 
Infustigate
 
blot suit or dog my shirt
mount lung or dog my aim
blunt gnat or dog my key
fog ripple or dog my lung
rut lisp or dog my shadow
pile sock or dog my spit

 
 
The Itching Fog
 
bring my cord a hamster
slug my shirt a hamster
file my eye a hamster
snore my crotch a hamster
aim my drink a hamster
shoot my tooth a hamster
 
 
 
The Fortress
 
horse and hick while stopping
lick and hick while beaming
tock and hick while drowning
mute and hick while sheeting
gum and hick while burning
nod and hick while grinning
 

  
Blisters
 
bink an blink the coatrack
cog an comb the sandbox
shim an shine the foghorn
fake an fire the voicebox
vent an vile the plunger
pack an puke the bumblebee
 
 
 

Dog Light
 
sot happy and a motor
jack happy and a stuffer
shirt happy and a comb
bog happy and a suffix
slack happy and a heel
caw happy and a smoke

poem || Edward Nichols

The Imagined


 things are  aCharming were the surreal vestiges of a yesterdays now, the knowing avd teh being-being abbreviated just as the facts would. Reality actually offering refuge,to aclass that was worcdlesson the subject; retaliating only in remission of a new lesson.The,the twilight shares the day and I find the consumation of it reliable and fanciful in its.Parcipals ran out as far as the astringent, a Canterbury yarn ran world wide.
I'M THINKING THAT THese damned things are imagined.

Only with the light of sychronization, the art of synchronicity. The jumble of tree pushes landed them back on the desert. The arc of the space of time of synchronicity seem to run through or find and seek out Dr. Dent, believed it to be the intensity of magnetism of his orgone box, always; gradually growing that led the heart and soul of life- synchroncity-towards, given him; paranormal, experiences that so oftened happened to Dr. Dent and the crew. Like now, they pop-up on an island,....the first thing they saw was a stack of very flat stones, incircled by a circle drew in the sand. Dr. Dent counted the stones, and that there was 23 stones, and he looked down at the book he'd been writing and found it was on page 23, he slowly scratched his beard on his chin. Dr. Dent- deuced if I'm not stymied. These happenings are very strange. What's more there appears to be a Tropical torm coming through if the pain in my leg doesn't lie to me.

text || Peter Ganick

from 'as-though'

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poems || Felino A. Soriano

January Deceased
 
 
 
A long occurrence extracts
elongated findings of known
approximations.  Wind wears
heavy-handed cotton
absorbing rain and relevant angles
whose whisper light dangles
versus
accommodating swell of hours’
disillusioned meanings. 
 
 
Silent, or, abridged
 
 
 
A silhouette
                        changed
                                                became
                                    altered
                        a
silver-once rendition
now-turquoise interpretation, pregnant.  Not
                                                                        with child of crying
hankerings,
                        with devotional alterations
made by fractioned hands
whose desire to unfold braided contemplation
rewove threads of patterned differentia
 
                                                                                    countering
language of wind’s ambulatory sameness
                                                            thus
the silver-once silhouette
wore jewel of blued translation
reaffirming communication of the tongue’s stilled
articulation. 
 
 
Esoteric
 
 
 
Ingurgitated allegories
            pastel serene confined
roles
forward
                        systematic deluge
devoid
                                                of au courant deconstructive
                                    systems
                        farce
fair-served
                                                            snide                gallop
posterity
                                    revolutions upon
recommended hinges
                                                                        pivotal discussions
of the mouth’s curved
analytical absence. 
 
 
Physiology
 
 
 
Light, sprained
                                                an opaque
                                                                        unhealed ration
                        replaced
resplendent
                                    angles of vertical understanding
                                                                                                            denouncing
                                                serrated realms of particular
focus toward
                                                            alabaster situation.  Heel of
            formulated
notions
            watched and discarded
                                                            and hour’s
                                                                                                cylindrical
                        compassion.  Orange
hung
                                    coalesced fundamental remedy
                                                                                                            watching temporal
devotion to inaccurate prophetic                    innuendos, recovered. 
 
 
4/16/11 – 2:45 postmeridian
 
 
 
Ballet of garden scent
            collocated
imagistic rationale
                                                            with
modes of tonal acupuncture
 
            pierce
                                    progress
                                                                        pollinated
            virtues of denial’s vision of
desolate canopies
                                                            housing smiles of the shadow’s death, reemerged.
 
            This
                        Spring
of pastel
                                                precautions
                        preludes and condemns Winter’s choke and incessant bore,
            optimistic.  &c
                                                                                    strums an again’s reliable
recommendation
                                                woven words and sedentary needs
conserves the corporeal foundation of this day’s
softened curl into
                        dusk’s soon caliber of upper stratum                          compartments. 

text || Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

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poems || Vernon Frazer

Flashback Memory


Tough to beat
on a corona sled, the shadow 
play a foregone distance

emptied. Past vacuums surface.
The girth of brittle isotopes configures

a stretched face 
turning after ancient shards
to recast

radio amulet discharge placement

where heat weathers
turbines that spin pontoon nostalgia,

withering memory rotors 
roughened under the deadening pace
to a moving instant: gone



Trinkling Toward a Twilight


an aching
pendant lingered past the sun

a random number slowly chosen

when shaking matter
relies exclusively on digital
memories 

spoken through twining nails

a solace seeking its elsewhere
foundation birth or founder shell
a riff on rifting granite

depends on 
breaking the debt to the fingered pulse



Written in Stone


the barrier rose a frugal mist
in turns against the bloodline shore
its sequestered undertow

a churn toward memory 
fixed as granite’s flow ebbing 
a slow repose its yearning

listless memoirs unwritten
flap white banners across the sky
foreboding couriers on course

with collision its time carrier
broken open as a telling dial circles
twelve limits of its grim perimeter

rapping knuckles on the wind