3 poems || John Pursch

Muffled Scampi Ukulele

  

She walks atop deboned philatelists

at newly settled swoon dive dressage

hobbling craze imbuement radii,

inculcating aerial gopher girls

with cinnamon and turquoise cager murk filets

of serpentine impersonation hecklers,

fondled coarsely into bossy tribunal bleach.

Dimpled packing satiation creeps across her favored face

in trickle spurt revolver spears, offering to scatter

all availability’s attendant dropsy clockwork coma cliques

to filch entendres from uncovered festivals

of courageous spatter lard comestibles in flatware shoes.

Skittles morph to coital chest protractor seminars,

tire of chirping denuded vectors, and reify

all rectilinear coastal pottery in wattage fat.

Trailing wads hover lackadaisically, slump in mock bemusement sockets,

and sing illogical continuation’s muffled scampi ukulele cabaret tong

smooching swan recurrence glade usurping coda,

retaining nary an orthographic harmonizer’s posthumous harangue.

Heat axed cumuli from shuddering poultry steerage waifs,

plunking townhome griffins into charred coy hurler

stirrup rocket thanking gestures,

rescued from capitulating spastic flavor dresses,

flung to wringing mobile belt loops.

Fruition squirts among gesticulating protestation catcall hicks,

jawing scantily berated nuclear imposter freeze deterrence fallacies

at tambourine insurgents flown to mending darkroom jousting climes

for fugue infection carnival cooperation pavement.

Freckled Fission

 

How can simultaneity possibly infer synchronized dawdling

on arrogation’s crowbar scale of local misfire flesh regattas

in bezoar bemusement tentacle suspender sneezes,

worn casually by baker towline hummingbird paroxysm’s

lonely cuckoo?

 

Locks and pestles axe impellor figs from snooze controller prototypes

of trim escorted apple caries peccary preclusion pumps,

worn sideways by deplaning insomniacs on snore bequeathment’s

bubbled sprocket gum portrayal pilgrimage encampment vacuums,

giving whopping schedule cysts to bulbous interstitial trouser limes.

Glowing trestles hide a trainer’s Nubian extortion syndrome,

ferrying coddled pneumatic gurgles from mothball chlorine funerals

to luminary landfill grafts of nearby wooden bunts

in tarrying codicil mishmash slaker hayride temptress

gruel collision apse souffles.

Spores continue,

cantering to lofty tensor cinder gulls of v-neck sheet herds,

prodding goat tail bets from taller eigenvalue talismans

with rural poodle fluctuation’s paddling penchant

for location bisque charades.

Heaving hoarse pajama sorties onto speckled gangway bevel eaters,

sated pock czars gawk in mired sardonic shelving turmoil,

freshly fencing offal into word ingestion gristle crawls

from lobbed petunia staff inspection’s coarsely huddled

grooming piece of netherworld incision murk.

Breading porous hackneyed tracheotomy insinuation

into grated flimsy tease cake furlough pressure skies,

sympathetic golfers stone ironic fledgling undercurrents

with ceramic tuning flashgun panderers, coughing uppity knights

for greenery in habitual insecurity’s swarthy belch behemoth silo,

changing fusillades of persiflage to scary paired impunity’s

chiseled conning stare of freckled fission cannibal collusion songs,

caught hourly off the sliding shoals of worthless scooter notions

and rotational preponderance bereavement commissary mittens.

Cover Girl Insecticide

Open heavens grace the grills

of laughing fling-flash polyester pumpers,

crashing selfish isthmus anagrams

together into vinyl remonstration,

copping an explosive turbine belt departure streak.

Posh incursion spatters living poodle underlings

with tepid marker stowaway deterrence strategies,

generously fondling warmer blowgun victims

into fond submission’s crooning negligee of early egg straps,

prong extrusion symptom flats,

and serious inchoate tusk retreat.

Still the lap dog tenders not his severed cerebration,

separated knots withstanding holstered cotter pins

in cottage cheesecloth sanctuaries,

freezing swaddled toenail critters

with crying tiers of operatic boxing glasses,

seen for only useless ladder cringe-alongs.

How impeccably framed, this cavalcade of catamarans,

caryatids, and carbine gasconade carousal,

cocked and bloated on the sighing shores of once emphatic,

now ignoble, offhand desktop petty shark sightings,

dropping fowl from flurried plover seams

to far-flung crimson steamboat pipeline monkey cars.

Has the wincing elf shopped for plowing grain,

alleviating fantasies of philatelic Ipanema,

conning inferential glee and stupor’s pending swig?

She mocked in mirrored stimuli, a laugh so sensibly dismantled

into sky port partial ambulance oregano inhaler myths,

overcharging him with queries unresolved till quartile chews

go asinine in guide wire sightings of Crayola aspirin emotion glyphs,

exhausted by a burbled paranoid conceiver’s nuptials.