haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Shield feathered clinches the protection premised. On the count of three,
versus on the contrary, remains forethought tempered by taupe threads.
Wear one, split one. Watch the ring divulge infinity. One petal left upon
a carpet, overtime. The only long effects repair a version of trace minerals
all about percussion tracks a penchant for recovered bones. Is this your
structure? Witnesses place stretchmarks at the scene. The woman in
your parlor may romanticize the client base. Memento matrix, said
the hang glide pilot patronizing briar patch and lamp. Some elements
conforming to an off-the-grid departure from the principle of
reminiscence. True form clashes with predisposition. Waterfall, dry land,
wide lane, trap door. Aroma wafts into the safety. A quiet lifetime, as if
people had in common anything. Refusal to endure the human. Anything
alive. A boost in memory, morale, an intuition worth an answer wrong
on every scale.

Blue eyes, forensic gestures, the perfume of creosote along the roadway

3 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POME
For the po[m][t]e

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suffering down
scroll...

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glance duveropa mort or gopllei
not car~ing thumbslaw wadchout
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med ici ne sorry yr illkill easy prey
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per norci hib keol kilet youst dome
ronkof last dopeeropes/jone smoast
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me foret shamble knockwerk dopple
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poems || Felino A. Soriano

 
 
Various Tessellations 10
 
—after Robert Glasper Trio’s Mood
 
 
 
Apparent remorse
            the
spinning language of octagonal connections,
                                                                                                syllables etch into
                                                sporadic fulfillment
answering collector’s modulations and
 
emotional friction of spatial recompense. 
 
 
Various Tessellations 11
 
—after Wassily Kandinsky’s painting, Composition VII
 
 
 
Occupied space, the inexorable
            inversion (comparable oracle of desolate disbelief (comprehended, Socrates))
 
                        funneled versions
too, of
                                                                        nonsensical pathways jammed into
                                                disregarded fathoms’ self-portrait denial of
 
                                    syncopated heirlooms left of dust-etched fingering histories
 
                                                                                    whose hammering, helix remorse (inversion echo)
 
                 sought demeanor though damaged unconditional
 
surrendered vacuum of solid pretense, afterward of logical faith
 
portends then
                                                            soil into hygienic altering of the hands’
division of forthcoming architectural                                       synonyms. 
 
 
Various Tessellations 12
 
—after the moment I interpreted sound
 
 
 
Music, though unyet dimension.
 
Callus
into mind the
                        sojourn altercation immanent dialectic twisting gnarls of
           
                                                            relayed inconvenience:
 
questioned personal
qualitative persuasion
 
such force then softened removal of opacity’s clever constant covering of
 
the mind’s allegorical disposition.  My
                                                                                    rusted feet began their
 
swollen happiness.
                                    Merged. 
 
                                                Slices of crossed hallways, eliminating illuminations of the
others’ vocal definitions of
articulated callowness. Subjects identify relocated habits.
                                                                        Visions.
 
Bridged improvisations, burdened empirical newness
                        now and
nuanced renditions of vocalizing entities crisscrossing momentum of gradated
 
                                                            affirmations, squared. 
 
 
Various Tessellations 13
 
—after Duane Locke’s poem, SOUTH WIND
 
 
 
Interior fear composing
heretic
composure of nihilistic virtues,
compound modulations
            sway
sing
            endeavor
                                    trilogy of saxophone’s battling
personas:
 
                                                            rhythmic interpretations of
                                                stylized self against
                                    silent chambers
containing unyet interiors of decorated mirrors. 
 
 
Various Tessellations 14
 
—after Friedrich Nietzsche’s quote: “I do not know how to draw any distinction between tears and music.”
 
 
 
Fortune the
            inherited realism of bountiful resuscitation.  A burial of branded fulcrums
                                    isolate swivels amid accurate depictions:
 
of the hand
            the hand of needing momentum to
                                                                                    aggregate freshened soil of time’s
                                                            succinct diversions
                                    cultural dependencies
            sedentary abstractions
 
cultivating pluralized synonyms and
                                                                                                mobile readability the
                                                persuasion insists, depicts.
 
Sadness, nor the positional curtails of rhythmic misery
supposed in the fabric of skeletal composure
                                                            does personal compartments of
vocalized inheritance of musical
 
incarnation. 

haiku || Jeff Harrison

Haiku

you can't prove it, Spring?
I must've lost them somewhere
utter the question


take the newspaper
come upon a photograph
twelfth century


we're of no value
make a mental note of it
caught sight of them once


some kind of file card
catch us up on the story
thanks for all your help


utmost test of skill
around the bundled figure
mysterious crimes


a lot of hooey!
brought in by a patrolman -
a few paragraphs


undignified smile
Nietzschean aphorisms
nerve paths and brain cells


broken front bumper
these fragments shored up against
R.H. Raven Toes


a quick change of clothes
alibi nearly saved them
properly arranged

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

She construes surface as depth. Verses of appearance fall
into versus for the missus. Who confides in. Versus who
returns the service retribution. Piece of walleye.
Percolation primps. A wait staff. Don clamps down on.
Sends our friend. He did. Now what. The stuck part of
the damp line of the dervish when it swayed then placard
splintered too. Young braided boy at brawl. A scorpio deranges.
What miles to count. Play what is not. Young parallelogram.
A two-two tabula rouge. And now her ghostly prax. The yarn goes
dormant. Turnkey. Riced. The table-plated joust. And fractional.
And endearing. And repugnant. And encyclopedic. And infringed
upon. You know bestial. Thrice the bladelet. Scorn. Entrenched.
A shut-up's worth of condoning. Welter. Welt. New weight. The
only freedom. Patched. Is parsed too. Vintner and she does not
even drink.

Salt shaker, placing the distractions far away, torpor, rumor
milling around, a morgue in situ

Sheila E. Murphy

text || Peter Ganick

prescient form aegis strep voiceover yoga tote gallop incident utter aspe cairn totality ozone riff greeting slat nite shellac double coated volition slinger evening allies matinee immo granite agog render seize eerie annotate move effigy exoskeleton allot prime suspire valises meow vellum preside cocoa banish vendor sleeve boisterous wooden shard notebooks vijnana nepotism aisle cede snail paperjam adjunct reflect noon modus operandi selects eachness wonder neither awhile conative access mobius threefold stratify utterly apache nuke slight naming aegis brooking severe noggin streetwise impede around freckle amigo parachute gleam signatory opacity urreal collapsible render aside thingks felicity ameriorate vacuums eternity some parsec tjanting reflex tagore terza rima bludgeon those strayling remand elicit availability unveiling amounts shoppe data nit also eh surge mitigate surreal comparative urreal coatlique those sumptuous revenue asleep northerly ailerons gasp tureen although 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2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POMEcubebonesin

tried to releaseinside out the loss

through the samegoing his inside

hanging off

allowed to unleashnow

surelytried to releasegood whiff of

palpable and strange

nessclosing insu-

funny livingin in the legsafterall a thim-

able fullwith their skullsmarching inele

ifend velitas a cubegives birth toholding

his bones in



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had one to beleaving food

with a little world as hidden

giving birth toonefrom anhydrous

ammoniacaffeine takingmachinefix

never expecting a cageis offering here

withloving host an' physicallywillowo as

strutting in the bodyhurting and bothcould

chillmarble black fliessuffusingthin clothesstill

nessshadowwhat the nightmightbenowbelieving

to be coring pencores hypingstranger dealbadforest

balloondomicile wrecking chain havingdoorsslameat

ing’francha’foamybeatenhad tobeleavinglittle foodspills

catchingwind

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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poem || John M. Bennett

SOON


nope the plunger cor ah
nek id lap pretender
fog ~ my nates an loo
ming lungch !)the cap
raised a coatl ~comes t
he runny crowd the
streaking ~ smoke ,bullhorns
<< •••• yr knot frying
in my └eg ,,, I named
a moth smeared on
wa//

tower where the stones
rained ●● down the win
dow in my thigh □ your
tongue Ų retraction tubes
clattering in the gu
tter I bared my n
eck clock off swam ≈
“la isolación nombrada”
es mi pierna izquierda do
nde el cielo se revela
finito

“...le cortaron la lengua tronada”

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Takes a Wife

This most exhausting sentence broths on toward completion of one's life, says he.
You mimic me. You fault line everywhere I have. The mensch I thought I was lies
down in hammock, disabusing selves of thoughts concerning safety. Here we are,
and there I go, thinks he. The portion of the plate devoted to the vegetables
expands beyond the fruit, the grain. Sandpipers take the mind off sand. The sky
becomes all that exceeds beneath-ment in so many words. She's central and she's
prompt. She's here on time. She norms her way through others' time. I want to go
into a question where I leave my mark, and lose the interrogative, says he. I want
to find a self that I can be, as singular as March. I want to point out what has
been bequeathed to me, and give it up before I give it time. I want to father
something sweet. I watch the feathers from my situation comedy address the branches
and the future heat. I want to sever ties to tone deaf fracas, and attain
bewildered ways. I want to loofa obligations, breathe out safety while the norms
shake off my bother. Back to life and back to dreams and back to music, I will
overtake reputed moons. To month the whole way through the dowry and consider
myself whole as healed, apart from brothers, uncles, quaintness, aunts. That stance.

Shimmy as a solitary inkling, something often left upon the off-white page

Sheila E. Murphy

text || John Pursch

Rabble-de-Raze


Nay, ye antideluvian cider welch, ill alarng we've beknownst that cinder's lone besmirchin' wave, sinkin' low the crunch o' bone and wrack-o-rocks ye sing so well, as only ye canst dewline, doodle-do. Arg, conflatee, yer hidin' less than null wavelets, bay; thinks yerself opaque, do ye? Fancies yer mates a buncha idiots, a mob o' squealin' marans? Aye, seein' through it all and then some, we are, down to the slop, boy; the garbage pail has ye sussed, the shanks o' dead whale hast yer bleedin' number, doggie o' logs.

O, ye pissiman doudle, yein be flogged und wranked te the depth, consprocket. Spittance pent ye, bay! Craim yer prazen begt far murchian wheezin', ye scall'wagger bug! Pipe 'em over the rails, Mister Ramiter; givem hart scaldins tilst his rheumian squeamin's tarn mouth's a bleiphan trench o' stool. Dowager limiant, floggal and freeze, contuman spinian, rabble-de-raze, yer bones'll be noggered and notched with the death o' carbonized floodles and edgian crests, the seventy seasons o' piracy's ways, the craziest amulets strangle yer doozian, doggie-like doom, yer phineal drainage, ye pollywog blaggard.

Order! Order, I say! Now hearest, on this the penultimate day of judicial perumential flostulence, on the good ship of Bartumian Seaside Settee, knownst to all as the most Justinian bland in the tri-cornered planet of Dearth; hear me, I say into thown moven, plenitucular hog ears. To wit, one ambling, unfortunate seaman, flogged nearily to the spillage of twain contradictory confessorial blasphemies, forced to spewing heresies in the good name of fatherly cesspools...

Aye, the stink-a-raisin' the zombies outa me own septic tank of a werewolf fer a son, who's I keep a-locked up triplewise 'neath a concrete blockhouse, bats the belfrey outa that beleaguered boatswain, brought befar ye to face the depth charge o' mutinial lineage, bile-spewin' matee corentian heggle, ipso-maniacal hedge spottin' on the highest seizures, amidst the main and jetsam of a whaler's bilious brake pad breath...

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POME3rf[tys]ad

[al]le[golo|||]gyza[rontin]][dol[]lo

ch[onyx]ski[pwa]y[]n|||]o]n/as]op

scy[clo]loma]|pen[de]nu].'cu/]n

e[qu|\able]na[se\fla]keb[oa].[re

d]era[nthis|thp[pele[can]if./'o

[r]me[cyclo][loma ]gyza[ron\tin]

text || John Crouse

from DUHS


"Cowed viscera dumps hijacked syringes filly lather to pasture."

"Arc weld identty crisis roadside bomb."

"Snake oil commode inroads frosting packet."

"Cheers handjive bakers man epileptic."

"Commified plaster rollbar granite countertop addiction."

"Smithereens arc weld rubber duck."

"Shop vac commandos handjobs carpetburn waffle iron."

"Spreading liberty pustules genocide caramel apples."

"Gold star straitjacket freebird carryout jihad."

"Electroshock lug wrench gran mal standing ovation."

"Cake & eat it too bare knuckled pole positions."

"Twinkletoes baas broke cookie cutter."

"Cutbacks whipped cream emotional scars."

"Thighbone taser augments cornfed pouts dispositions."

"Botox improvs rabbits out hats broke whiskers."

'Push comes to shove heldbreath powerpoint orgasm."

"Identity theft hotties licketysplit cakewalk sneezeguard."

"Potty spritzes reinvent wheels ad nauseum dryclean."

'Sloppy seconds bedazzles pussyfoot broadband."

2 poems || John M. Bennett

SINK AGAIN


my “dusty” lake crusts
in my eyeojo de agua õ
fornido de puertas y tene
dores it’s your cheese plate
smears □□□ the itching b
all of glass crackling t
oward the broiler door m
y m outh vac ancy yr
sod den s hoe lost

yr boiled blinker fu
mbled shirt lunch t
urd ∞ steaming ~ on the
bench a laundered
moo n yr che wed
neck gristle o cough
the ape yr boc a con
tains the ,window past
your crumpled waves ≈ ▀

...ime solution scribbled on a napkin





ANT LUNCH PLUNGE


le soga emética tus inmin
mundos y astravientos *≈ ...t
he caged foot reversal and my
hoovered trace slugged it
out the passage raged an
all my raisins hard like g
ravel••••• )my page b
luster ,lever fortress wh
ite with ash . . . . . . . (((

dusty rope beneath the f
loor’s endless tales of
,cash lint left ,trusted
clocks ≈ drizzled on the
sand you . . . coughed be hind
er rate ,the paused nu
mber Ѳ... like las migas que
te echas ,brazos y mu
ndos que se olvidan del fuego ~

...what lists and hands converge...

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Balsa wood airplanes found in language compete with the pronunciation of
rurality. Now I'm warm; a minute ago, I turned it up. Honk if you think
fear can be relaxed. Dumbwaiters have to do (with freight). One of the things
I've always loved . . . from time to time, a depth in your originality.
Turn on the tap, turn off the clodhops, recognize the referendum torque
its way to iterative blanching. Tree branches list amid our brevity. The
sprawl configured holds its posture where we know to seem asleep.
Which lace would most become my window? Hushed silver taps the
dual-paned glass that looks out over snow. If goalposts house
a penetrable surface, who can claim stray film?

Overdose of undertone, fleece foaming a distraction from immortal recency


Sheila E. Murphy

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POMEdarv un/\=][a+rt+
 
blue[] b++lack]]
 
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sand[]w[h]i[t]ch
fate
 
on his he][p]art
 
hurt..;ling pack]et
 
blo|odpeo[ple won
 
deringab out peo
 
p[ile who;ll ge ][t it
 
 
　
cyc[][]lonegre[ed pas]sing
 
show[]erth boundgroundji
　
nomnichro matic las[y]ers spra[ty
 
water sup';[ply kincrawl. butter
 
flies'drowned speck led blueb]lack
 
  drag[]onson j++aw breakers rubbing
 
  on foe[]quoia[s equ oia e quoi e quo
  equ eq
　
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her/e wi\lal waysrem indeed orsenot dig[]ging
 
who[';]res -tive
　
more festiveppurple had f[l]u[n]cked a god[od
 
sport ''.]\art

poem || David Jalajel

artsale

rendered silver brush strokes cleanly flash
against white dentured smiles to capture target
players canvass pieces dealing most
recently relisted company
assets operate from over brimmed
assurances this weekend’s big performers
anxiously predict to spark a frenzied
launch emerging figures slip right under
well suited business sponsors promo ads
throughout the underground support for up
and coming artists driving down the price
engagements buoying over well endowed
premiers right now for only this one night
to flaunt how these best handled assets hold

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

Posture's tincture modestly abbreviates the slurs already mispronounced.
The screen neglects riposte. If you were she (not her) whom would you
bring (plus-one) to the festivities around neglect? Our year begins
when we declare freedom to selves twirled around beanpoles
maypoles, daybeds, tool sheds. Our resilience comes from mutuality, like
springs (as plural as you please) apart from seasons, cars, and mattresses.
I want to dance inside the cortex of another person's diffidence, to
undermine complicity of shrill free will. I would rather be a DJ than
platonic likelihood of turning food. And equally, I would prefer
to dust the shadow of a full life with goose down than drift toward night
earned by routine. For now, one's sturdy ritual becomes another person's
impact on the fraught.

Mandatory meetings, phantasms overcome by actuality, tin whistle versus
pencil late at night

Sheila E. Murphy

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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or min][d[ness [[blocked;
 
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  ingannoy,
 
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Armthacone

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

POME countinencechange

causeasonal wrongished

womenith "come light pi

le her any laspectly while"

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lythousenest of thenoutedly

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"MENE afell my beforld before asl"

3 poems || John Pursch

The Death of Archimedes


Sunlight on the mine shaft lost the topsoil, found the hidden walker, and filtered down disappearing alleys, averaged over the length of the contract, bidirectional and superfluous. Hazy pyramids of garbage made harmonious jump ropes for small boxers, handles for no suspenders, pipe teams for fleets of feline fedoras, and clothes for clotted Cartesians. Hark, a mediator, scratching in the plain! So, man, roll yer die, Yankee dog. Stand a day with my diaphragm, Centurion. He played to the masses, unlike the Soc’, but both are chiseled in the plains of lower Swobodia, in business seminars from Bangthedesk to Coppa Riminme. Pushing the envelope to school with his nose would’ve been colder than plying the panoply with pineapple for the pithy response token, but bowling obtained in his sandbox, no more soft talk, hand rumble, tore off his toe in a grandstand collapse; remember the bullwhip, a dark street, a voice, a glance, a coil at my feet…






The Forest of Wonder


I have seen the hexagon's portal and the spendthrift gone plop in the night. We have tasted sky in the sandbox and a frivolous barn in the stygian mood of a wartime lance. So under the rabble and over the moose a flyer has trundled and fled from simplistic effects, gone happenstance, and a querulous float mending ravenous toads, leaving pendulous antlers unraveled and tied in a sundress for tarmacs, a spillage of twine, and a germinal flute up a tree, through spectacular rods in miraculous pews and a hankering for a great feeling of angst and nebulous tankards of mandible jousts, given over to bookies and slovenly tarts, climbing fences to check on a garrot or three, slipping patiently through lenticular booths of discordant, ambivalent sighs. In a Plexiglas stove on an island of granite, a mendacious planter of figs catches amblers and fluttering pines in a chalice, for spinaret spigots, joyous in pain, wrenching their souls in delight, hammering plentiful jiggers of ringing glass bells, bivalent and caught in a sequestered hillock's partially chosen balloon. How much water can tenderloin shirk? When can flexors be darned? Who will arrive with a miniscule sandwich when planters of porcelain form? A chimney, a chortle, a God-given mumble, a marble for hambones and samplers of more; a quizzical quagmire of trial and peril, a literate snore in the forest of wonder, a gibbon gone bounding to spatial estates, a tremulous blackout, a specious galoot, a flexible, timorous, angular face...




Callubential and Demacious


Em carrigant bunnichumpers
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mithing a carmontal splooch,
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gulabrous for infidential flenge.
The quarbling of a cantergimmion eezes,
tentered on ferubence,
ementified our gloring,
emmitent, cherumptic egoncs,
callubential and demacious.

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poems || Jeff Harrison

Knots of Hilda Doolittle

HERMETIC DEFINITION

to tie a Bowline Knot

Bowline is tied to:
swift thru dolorous lessers

form an eye

eye is tied to:
ships (schooners) affrighted

with the standing part
of the rope running underneath.

run the free end thru the
dolorous lessers swiftly, then
thru the eye (wide, affrighted
by schooners), making a loop
below said eye. take a turn
around
the standing part & feed
the free end back down
the eye & hold there.

pull standing part to tighten knot.

*

HIPPOLYTUS TEMPORIZES

the Double Fisherman's Knot
is made by looping a rope
into a figure-8 in order to tie
two ropes together. since beyond
rope, as in breath, is almost certainly
tyranny, it is recommended the
ropes be secured by their ends.
endless amounts of rope is desired.
practical is to tie two ropes into a loop.
the Double Fisherman will make another
knot secure when tied with the tag end
of the rope behind another knot, in other
words, when half of the Double Fisherman
is tied around the standing line of another knot.

*

HELEN IN EGYPT

to make a Clove Hitch, make a turn
around a post with the free end
running underneath the standing part,
not exactly artistically. was Virginia's idea.
take a second around in the same
direction and feed the free end thru
the eye of the second turn /. pull tight.

It was Virginia's idea to make a Clove Hitch, but Neaera was ready to fall
in with it. It was to be done thoroughly and lastingly but not exactly
artistically. Virginia and Neaera were war widows and had made a solemn
compact to remain widows forever. Ianthe had confessed... As for Appius, he
tied very few knots and very few people asked him to tie anything. O, he
felt to the full the lure of treading WHERE NO HUMAN FOOT HAD EVER TROD.
Ianthe had thrown her wedding-ring at him and flown out of the house. How
Virginia and Neaera would show him they were widows indeed!

easy to tie and untie, it holds firmly but is not totally secure.

*

THE HEDGEHOG

beware! the Square Knot will untie
itself under movement. do not trust
the Square Knot to join two ropes
together. the Square Knot will capsize
under a heavy load. when tying the Square
Knot, both parts of the rope must exit
together. whence the untrustworthiness
and trickiness of the Square Knot? gather
around: but no, I will breathe not a word,
not until the Double Fisherman runs out of
rope.

these are the words he was at last compelled to write.

*

HYMEN

to tie an Anchor Bend Knot,
make two turns around
the shackle, leaving turns
open. knots may evade us,
as our own features are
less familiar to us, to our.
take a half-turn around
the standing line and
feed the free end thru
the turns and pull tight.

the Anchor Bend Knot was a ruin awash in wilderness when I found it.

poems || John M. Bennett

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text || Peter Ganick

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She has married him so thoroughly, she'll never get away.
Her poise has gone to build him up to a break-even status.
All her friends who have admired her, now find empathy
for what fraction of a future she has carved apart
from an intention. She has married someone's leftovers.
A life of consequences someone else once seeded. She
used to be a self, and now that entity is integer, as
multiplied, divided as a child just learning the impossible
arithmetic that becomes their lives. She patches over
an inferior material and wears it in whatever weather
comes. She has clocked in hours and batched together
particles of happiness in past tense. Amnesia turns
to sacrament. She opens every window to look out on
what was possible. She rehearses her capacity to hold
still. To be held.

Deflection of the source of fear, a prior seeming justice


Sheila E. Murphy

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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3 poems || John Pursch

Another Fake Potato


Sun, brisk, laughing down the last giblets of the rope they gave you, your rope: the one you skipped, the noose, the hemp. Efficient, simulated rain; hail on demand, a greatcoat for criminologists to finger and prod. Skoal and crossbows, cowboys hit the feudal system, lasso who and lariat moo, the crazed tin sheriff's coconut caper, cowling complete, a coolant quite soothing, even in times of barred marbles, a legion of martyrs... Fragrant flagrancies on voyages to the rocks, to be landlocked again, in vertiginous prolapse, clutch cable buckling, only enough hope for one last eight ball, banked off the spinner, over the sundial, into the elevator, up a leaning cliff, spiraling ultra-slow to grab two pieces of liquid machinery from stations near the game. A long shadow, plenty of definition, reminded him of spring, melted preconceptions of a bathing party gone wild, or a quaint picnic with bows and lace and ants. "Too melodramatic," warbled the pie man, nailed by another fake potato, just a rock. Effigy used to be such a good job, my uncle was a great one, famous in the state, burned at the stake, hanged, tarred and feathered, tortured. Very resilient, never showed a limp, so much as a scar, never missed a game. Didn't make the Hall, though; horse-sex scandal in '32 ruined his chances.





Pure Pepto


On ponds like these, with paddleboats and ping pong players riding floats to nowhere, just the mention of a fragment engenders proclivities unintended. The rolling human vampire jams the town, covers the continent, and changes to food groups from hammerlock to back brace, implying helmets. The wheel unspun, questions went unsolved, small notions of unreality persisted, ribs were poked, shins kicked, nosed picked, a new leaf found but rendered lackadaisical by the feral lesion. Nimbly, with grace, over the table, toward the quibble over reptile filming, somnambulant soda machines pour beer onto pigeons; a deluge of herbal tea, vitamins, early breakfasts, nonsensical meanderings and launch reports; a program from flip-flop dynamics, bitwise plenitudes of arctic flanges, turned to bromo in the sun. Lean, but sinusoidal, liftoff, area under the slider greater than the strike zone, a feat of pure Pepto, local roots, and a classified list of bird parts. You can just throw in the whole bird, it works, but it tastes bad and is very messy to prepare.




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Make of self a little island field with temperature inverted. Make a time to
wield the nothingness, that it might seem contagious. Limit intake, outflow,
adhesion heists. Be singular as willful rest. Now is what you often missed,
one at a time. Pray simply. Cool replaces the way warm replaces cool. Notice
specificity, as foolish as a cloud that once removed the perfect blue.
Make of experience an innocence deliberately flushed with river, as you made
a tape in hope of keeping secretly a morsel of ephemera. Rule to be forgotten.
Speak back to selves you learn to name, rename, refresh, reveal, that rule.
Accommodate the freight that will not leave this place you maintain as a pulse
continues by. Thump in hand, in wrist, in heart. Behold. Be wary. And be multiplied.

Ways of having Thursday count, picking a shred for thinking

Sheila E. Murphy

poem || Keith Higginbotham

Scalloped Weather Without Floss of Anywhere


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pumps

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eyes—goldenrod the no: dalliance my
avenue poster sidewalks
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land during and unkind
upon dental as the pumps
with pinch

darling anchor: on in
hoarse pain softly face a rude
wanton life
metal let tolling
bottom
weepy you

rolling apropos petal:
share the
deep echo
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the This Once, its
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2 poems || John M. Bennett

THE SWELLING LAMP


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book a gutter in the
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limp and sopping like your arm

text || Peter Ganick

coatlique more baton slumber redundant listen everlast listener also carom tether vineyard motto scree opaque middle range flourish cavity omission those persist enough psaltery met find nothingness aware oppressive elasticity thensome bent happiness rundown shale recursive immerse tenor governance pliant incense anothered lament listen deleria otherways vilanelle norm inertia slightly official borealis noetic avalanche dissent avers footfalls incredulosity utterly abstruse oval timely rabid eocene essent conative reconaissance torn alien serrate neoprene alizarin mode slightly nirguna schnell canoe deleria blog rien sitter lizard mutter laissez noesis threefold pristine clef doux paramour selon les autres lead nth nepotistic allargando brutish vacancy trail integrate noon llama bitternut suede reach shell game placebo that scrutiny zones delight anno domini lossless once earliest facile notification weal throughput brood emaciate mellophone debate slightly presume delay bobtail commerce slither aware lost haircut enough shelf sitter balkanize densest garrulous theatre impose nevertheless waking sled hopscotch variable documentation ellipsis through barometric val de mar nerve slightly presume graffiti hum nsaid volunteerism thorough surplus than seer exegetic huddle point familiarity vest network hoop shallow celsius through parasol terrestrial clobber anvil vanish preamble suction empathetic valkyrie nose rim soothing each realitize vouchsafe longterm altimate covert mumbo jamboree sizing reach tenet vacuum slightly prasada imperious asking somatic vingt quatre retune assurance slightly desk jotter sistine vacate motto sic oeuvre colossal nothing allies utterly apodictic emaciate notification emblem sinister latinate rodeo manifold determinism vouchsafe delay urgency paradigmatic arial rhizomes every wainscoting liaison either elsewise degree aroma either inward volunteer slither inarticulate mode scree parsec deterrent alit centrism nugget anno domini scrupulous deterrence sand neither naive nothings everlasting lossless avowal cedar blousing vacancy deluge unroll damage list sine qua folderol vernal conehead intersect vouchsafes deliberate modus operator evincing sallow paradigmatic talking skeletal buggy ossification no matter isness wooly soot inarticulate pachyderm assurances goad nutmeg ossify parallax describe lys normative caliper ncis teletext nominal another waiting seldom triffid earliest grammatical lucidity preclude omnibus delay norm inward earliest vacate mode singularity epos those scrupulous delay urgency permissive allies edict noun oval consequences accord entice another waiting sleight bobcat surreal coffee hopheaded isness willowy canoe scrupulous treadmill occasion integral picture spliff national either waiting so somewhere interpret vacancy notebooked silence trust vacate mode site waits delivery scrapple outward eggshell small talk envoi clutter singularity urreal that cloister vacancy perilous teaming scree load enough site vacancy nth singularity apostate mode through inner silence those surpass ivory clatter immerse locus rerun latte syntax mitosis fellowship reactive onto in respite atomic react neon repatriate volition cent

2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POME as gy

fuzz resurrection drop

aimlesstao grasshump

leaving earthorns



fire tabdancer fluid ill

eyepulles festooned

wishing faucibus zo


blanche hands eight

trumsjostle kneaded use

closing 'snake wurrums'


carnation folsage oven

funfain buddhoch live

prostoru serverovny lipz


boli sme na skrini hopless

overgrown file derision

hiss ed pigtail pawnbroker





POME 71

plunge bol|lie flockgreen for k
prancespank touch gol den g
nose pie r'ce co ne a frot tahge
blue basin mark square tot too
cane switch henge post tell ta
sprung phone bottlenome book
sa usage grief turn eter n pos
page ting shadow anto nin cur
cumin te eth bold spread vibra
ation ship blue shell fence fend
stuffersave stagger stack cattle
grin canal battery brush radio o

hot om ruler paw desk neverache
blade covercream bell sings omo

upto circle pay
bol|lie flockgreen n e
wayhorn

poem || Jeff Harrison

All Loud Worm

slow-rising naked heart turns spider-tongued
turning dry quarter shapes,
O how the Fall harnessed my veins down

flat tiger crane-flat beneath the skin

my mechanical fruit gone All Loud Worm -
Mr. Hole and the rest of the dead
are walking like a mothered Spring, their
fingers are now syllabic levers

the sea-gut Summer's tomb weathers
the powder of some Sargasso smile our
original fishes' bough is alight with drowned fuses

the dark her shawl brides is my address
my poison address can dry up any oasis
my promise spat between the blood forks
shows zeroes are only nerves?

each tear (baby's fair frigid) was
darkness-froth in tides,
these soils rub Devil's hives

tickled tithings O not kissing
what's in the milk & O fetching no string
for the blood-multiplying bone berry

poems || John M. Bennett

sigo férret ro

mer o pús

tula pasa

dijo ····

cednt ra lizo



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gagasto de galo

ped ido

in têtegral





col ina agu

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the foreign lobe ()



purse ()



excremencia ()







solo frota



sanwich



cerrar los ojos mojos







the reef squeaks

the lung gates

the stab whats

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letter ptisic



escupitazón



the brimming o’er



shadowed flies

; ;;; ; ;; ; ;







spore calm un

the tape taste



runny roof

...........)cloud(...


gas







mumbled foam mum

bled rooster died

at dawn the for

king sun the

munddny wall

4 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POMEes1

pulled hungers

camphor dust

frog lick leaving

neophyte schizo

phrenic punctuat

ion petitioner

chocolate butter

flies war unfare

too much dude

cannibalism foul

stupid fact math

ematics affliction

bleat gradual titr

ation solitude

es2

echoing consump

tive nonsense scat

tered cone eviden

cece drawn knife

toothed rumour

es3

perfume bunsdown

cage l creepysacks

vengeful backwards

butterscotch flip

es4

puddled justice flies

twist close toes

black hair engines o

gold platedattention

dust metamorfiction

hijinkshijinkshijinksh

ijinks yielding feet

reverse cow bedroo

mother distak done

forest shine hanged

heavy endedenend

3 poems || John Pursch

Homage to Captain Nabob



A placid, yet formidably vituperative affair, the War of 1812. Cannon, crossbow, erector set; houseboat, logjam, can of mace; smokescreen, fishnet, anthropoid; will do, Cancun, firepot, hambone for Uncle Bob; and nether the leather shall tether the unsuspecting bellwether stock; eye be them, the most rusted mane in erectronics. Working day and night, the women and men of the waveolution splashed upon the shores of O-say-can-you-sire-a, Nude Hamster, near the Vermin border. Now that naked hamster ain’t got a chance against them vermin, I always thanked, but ye canoe, he do and does and did whup them varmints, played a bit at complete annihilation, then screwed the placato-switch to quick-start the prostate, causing a bowel alarm. Rods out of the water, cracks in the containment vessel, the Seine shrinks, bridges stand dry and deserted, monuments to the atmosphere, the ruins the epitaph, the epitome of epiphany. Hope not, bland storier, thine building shall not crumble... Nay, Captain Nabob, the Flintlock of Firing Pin, Barlovia was tied by spatial interests to the gradiating glass of pi-teen-o-wow, City of Norumia, Lost Blemish.







Many Quicksands



Fuzzy pathways sometimes missed, time just a means for processing the sample set, of the set, many elements, differing only in their time of collection. Pop-top haven for criminal blacktops, asphalt on the lamb, severely restricting the animal’s mobility. Champion dart man Pethronius misses the whole board, simply contemplating strip mining of the ocean floor, forgot about the water, but only after a billion had been squandered on research. Growing fish from plankton, via the crab, a slow but sure reaction, catalyzed by amniotic fluid. Bought the special molds in Paraguay, the gods yawned on easy times and cranked everything, amused with the orchids, the opera shoes, a farm of escalators, menus and bobcats from eras gone over the rapidly rising banks of tidal rivers near you; coming spoon, knife, and fork in the toad worth two in the fender, sayeth the mailman. Clamor for the starlight, moon decides the day, holding for the barfly... Many quicksands. How many? Heading which way? What size? Do they have tigers, tramcars, or turpentine; trampolines, turncoats, trundling toys tied to triangular trench coats?







The Cantorovan Malize



Gormelodifrob on hentorichore

and hexoricam end fondeliborg

con circelimorfus keng panduckle bint,

erd frammle and bandular orbleteecorps;

engen harfinur octar fem staliture pheenj.



Segs ceramit ind heng unar eppel,

alomitous pengen sher zamit anure,

earie hemgular plent and democutous,

cremzonic porfilians, who teck

and garemp the mintiduous bront.



In al depsian kiktabule,

og vasting and pooritain, moracious quob,

a spedgle of encruquian mobtops

plend wherulian honts

fer einth pluzzent friemonts,

sneshing a mard, uvian gropefronze

till enter naderheimers egest

the cantorovan malize.

haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

You have a choice of whether to make it work or keep it broken. And you elect to keep it
broken, as if a ticket to attention. The pile of pieces that no longer connect means Goodwill
must come to haul them in. Perhaps to simulate a working thing. Perhaps to show good
hope, if not quite faith. You had a choice that you begin no longer to continue having.
As the broken thing morphs into other things, and as you cease to watch, the center
point shifts to a different place. That place, no longer central, shifts from openness
to turf. Whose turf? The guesses gradually accumulate until no one possesses the
connections. And connections resemble possibilities of newly formulating things that turn
eventful. Heaps of new attention might collect or might collide. The inferences might
capsize. An individual such as yourself may have a role in changing forward or
reverting. Stasis no longer holds. An infinity of centers pivot to include remote spots
operating as distinctive centers yet unknown.

Rapport, lack of rapport, a story told from one perspective, an infinity of fiction

Sheila E. Murphy

two pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

POMEkuljR sIdEway slicfedrea

or scons off put of heave sone traigh

then accords oof mudlerknow of jeh

oval thouse thago in ish esdid nessunt

ess sence lambere fervantsoldens stop


river wound

dismal grasp

hide out aces

fire the maost

way fromwine

mum shroude


then oof mudlerknit accords heahilo

fervants lambere oldens stopfromwi

necons offoof heave putshroud elbo

distal oval thouse thago out aces go



half expected

men disperse

gate tane tried

dependent veil

bell praphoets

spaken dumm


fi lambere oldens stopfromwind

grass river hide firemuddle ownr



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text || Peter Ganick

license to rave

streamline evaporate nematode burly apse totalitarian center vouch nothings each vector errata tenacity ousia blockade motto surrey colophons scumble threadmill encyclopedic haptic ovulate nose threefold fourth planentary celica those sternum palette nothingness awakening surreptitious thingks aileron site wassail torrentous greatly nothing each notebook surrey hampering slothful grade stillborn slumber toasted faucet breaking sight aegis those reunite galleons toxin scamp ironic prosit those damage renominate iffiness wait slightly preside motto balancing attitude metier legitimate ossifications whether intimate nestling acetone cellar viewpoint nibble quantification one steppe haecity baron alabaster wave snowfall interpret aisles demure earliest thorough isness wily permission those naming whichever through anchoring each vector network strum narrow totem an elaboration variously presume clobber aegis net ainsi through surreal coefficient aisle naiad bot harrow cetacean baud utterly ancillary oeuvre mime ontic leisure otherwise plateau connote averaging stealth northerly abandon each leeway impede release encroach erewhon those routine streetwise apodictic evaluator network nth stiletto revamp erasure beheading surplus exegetic algae through parity enamor nostrum evacuee sleuth harass thorough surplus pummel buffo valkyrie through isness wiles dorito sentient mirror schematic vamoosh energetic language hoax vulnerable through tycoon ethereal cogency noetic variance situate mod streamer vehicular eocene through apprisal comparison thermidor quaver silence trousseau itness willing nominal corrective once saltine scientism norm island ocean streamline corrective wampum each lectern vainglory tenacity ennui thorough seizure pleonastic valve contrastive allocate motto nite aisle noon correct snapfish ironic caliper vacuum presume tradition linkage emotional granary othello burden socialize emaciate vade mecum settee lotto scruple thankful sotto voce thensome bandoleer 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terazzo threnody lifter illbient foal ochre focus threshing matinees delight arable through inroad bitten sleepless antipathy sentiment mend lessee grapple outrigger sine qua non reify blunt saith says sez thorough surrey compadre intersperse none siphon intervene waltzing matinee listless antigone matrices debate thread miller banditry meander isthmus graffiti each lexical soprano elaboration least foccasia hoop suffragette millipede commence repair noster pad motions leaning streets wigwam gruesome thread nth silo proclivity each enamel nothing facilitate curiosity borrow saith satya burrow enamor shibboleth incertitude moat voice amplitude lasting selectivity ones matinees through paradigmmatic envelope intertia lean tongue bereft nobis tiller calisto through parochial rendezvous impede listless antelope miata scurrying threadmills each vacation elsewhat mirror release noon matinees strength imperative birth damask nutmeg liaion fluidity breakdown resussicate callow shapeshifter 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regalia through initialize remake kaolin thensome scram butane calumny threefold thrash accuracy badminton laissez apportionment cinemax coterie torsion that clientele majuscule thereof only interloper looped through a surrey lean tonic lesson blankly nocturnal leasch totalvision spate litter alto sprach zarathustra mobius skeleton assuage note brimfuls those oeuvre than plasticene inkless paper clime throttle behavior thereas glut flutter seizure zinc alertness wake ascension thinkful rope singularity irreal collapsing evidence therefore mindstylism thracian space heater iscariot ontic sidereal civic tonto alternatives delicacy totemize remake connote acid frozen lambaste noon tricolor all togethered aardvark empowerment also candles delay naming elite iffy sack realitas connote wassail thorough door spottage imbibe pinecone impediment buyer each least novitiate merriment lavish lava remand ironic stubby relayed stateless formless where why patterns empedocles thins stint vaccine glug rill tranquillity each oeuvre tzar eidetic malleably contrastive wherewithal throughfare ligatures await preoccupation sieve horlogeries deluge nuke suddenly nepotistic vale through demigod hare krishna network issues betweens training gulag nor energetic algae meteoric alien seizure edelweiss amidst assurances decant escutcheon thankful senile noon stride praline understood emit vouchsafe what nintendo inroad that scrupulous tremor boats imitator conic harrassment vulcan impoverish thinkings settlers another damask tangent oppressive lagoon alongside dreamtime seize non think allotment whether innocence remake laissez remotely breakthrough suddenly orison thereof scholasticist nova elate lectern scabrous therefores indications elementation sorrowful that energetic assurances dewy pretension notifications whereas genetic allotment cinder ancillary knowledgeable ichor amoeba feudal irrigation elite mannerist gavotte ultrafine matinee sleuth accord entourage immodest gone roughshod toot parallel axon thresh tatters threes

3 poems || John Pursch

Wheat Puppet Fingers


Aye, conduit; ye can and ye shall, by the good grace unknown to the pillars of heat and the hens of all contentious islands of conscious neglect. A dazzling, drawn waterline, flirting with the ever-elusive pinnacle, dampens the oscillatory scope of piercing, proven disregard, centering our nimble awareness with figurative dexterity and cool, unlimited reservoirs of symbolic backpedaling. Periodic retrenchment serves the dallying brick cavern of our modal arrival, preferential in its diabolical merry-go-round. Simmering chestnuts hover with newborn gnats, filling the pond's radiant airspace with notions of sidling parachutes and glimmers of a thousand herbal gemstones, yearning for a piece of the infested romance. Birds and geckos sing to blind machines of wonders beyond pure reason, hopping to the tune of mirrored rays and sandbar insecticide gone to vapor. Locked minions toil along a dimly lit trail of torpor and fizzling dice, creeping in all directions, floundering for acorn meal and shards of respect. Swiveling plastic idealogues spew rank, voluminous treatises, fouling the air with typical herd technology, waving off common sense, resting on landing stripes and pensions filched from pocketed knaves. Even so, the sun blazes on, thermostats cry for wheat puppet fingers, carloads of triune bellies scramble for grapes, searing dinosaurs cling to gaseous phantoms, columns conflict with row boats of our connubial gentility, and sleek wardrobes hinder egg bearers, blocking the wanton many from precious fuel. Dripping through another blurred era, the sweat of countless browbeaten, abandoned parents slowly fills the hourglass, dashes the gates of homeland felt, and imbues our nascent wonder with clear, unbending girth. Scenery shifts and sags to the beat of rotating reptiles, controlled by both physical order and miraculously murky laws, long since forgotten. Welling up, our emergency instincts populate the planet many times over, wrack bone and brain, festoon the jungles with carbon clods, and pause only to hand out leaflets for a barbeque. Blending torn quadrants of famous friends with desperate touches of sane, measured potions, the lawn party beckons to all, but accepts only the terraced few; the moral equivalent of basting peanuts in packaged meals. Smooth precision marks the broken contracts of our fond relapse, hitting proud relatives where the homage cannot wield its waning dignity. The urge to plunge headlong into the rivulet of bronze intent overwhelms us all, leaving countless world wars the rank, inevitable, somehow chosen refuge.




Trein Extrozen Obsco


Peridential, gamaline photes

gramm kinderpin onguent

pil cantam nerbinious og,

erumence an engubontal

impuwem's crempin corung.



Steem kempers ob blen arg

sputile, frenchant orguiles,

taramential rogs gnottered

wilch trageer winal smelph.



Romt rudentious fleg ocramiter

dein putim, spendous orgamine,

aribon harb penwinchered.



Gruthe zelm erking enderfen

quontix, mercufon nence.



Vetser spen aquid cordilli fren,

odger ang mindufile umb

hoggermin dietz.



Kounine das fremorous idj,

tephile dendering's arctip,

emerpo rosting pirin phuel,

allem contite trein extrozen obsco.




Amop Cronal Org



Apangule geckonimous shraddle estima,

puera connomular plantidinous minnage,

ejicled zenibles and plexal, effinumal ognards

of cantimere, spinnals for phrem,

canspigles in hemmins of spoonies por tence,

carmanious hexun ij ethtan o'meir,

chimcanule aboxian spential afarian

mintage of canber on irring of phlatous,

wenchal to tincerous hanbles in graphe.



Gortemulent maltiplen spon jeedingly loof,

saltiminous tigranous alther min porg,

obestian menchers amop cronal org,

and jebbious hammular, spintocular mirant

of krendant, horbicled cothede,

adgintled and conceran chippular formenes,

semank urd weirdoc unmanding.

poems || John M. Bennett

chain the comb your
luggage ʭ knot cl
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air soy huehue
teotl ,a ≈ cloud




,mule ,knock ,EZLN
,sendero de grava ,and
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ips an ,storm ,slimy
in the mountains
a doll stands free
,shoots,
●




grunt balloon mind
hammer yr dogged
choke mold the
mice drink na
me the cave you
said yr name in





hole
half
it





bulb tool
waste
runny fog

≈,,,





my thigh star
apt to cringe

the “dog lake”

~whiff~





bore me to
ward my as
pirinhalation
reach your
tuna burger
what was sp
lashed I fried my
headache breathes today





phone your door tie
your clot mister
Flagwurst slaps
his ear )))




shoed your dr≈
ool my sopping socks a
marble p●ulsing in
your nostril

poem || Edward Nichols

Concurrent themes he evinced as he whetted the rustoff his tippy- tophat.
Thoroughly flourished,he evinced himself of a tapestry ,and,ran the blue hole through a tempster dagling off a pole, ran the quarter mile as a fifth, shelved used Tturnps of a stuttering shot of rigomortis.His throat shattered in a hacking cough at the mere mention of the word.

Embittered embroiled battle, bubbling bloated blastedin the everhaven garden Demetrius delight .The lights floated past, one, as the overdrive the middleman and pure the puree' on neutral.Sodden with the Earth