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Saturday, October 31, 2015

3 poems || Sheila E. Murphy

October Ghazal (2015)

Semi squash detente rekindles furniture
one of us withholds the story of a life.

Pendulum draws dust from afar,
as docents name the kindling Harriet.

Even weeds contribute butter hues
before the neighbor children-plucks them.

Tantamount to sanctity, attention grows
another limb to add confusion.

Fast-featured blur of a majestic
wash of kindred warmth imbued with line.


from Lauds (35)

I separate the sea I breastfeed shoulders of horizons
All for thee peremptory indulgences to cover me
Along the path toward sleep your pores

Perfume my dream with pulse points
Tender aptitude’s unearthing a bereavement
Not to harbor, not to know

Earth holds island young
The seasons chill, dry winter
Ministers to living things

I try to rest near hand light skin
Taste wilderness, resume
The altitude to reach your taste


Smooth Green

attached each
whisper moves
smooth green
young wind,
pale paloverde
skin yields
slim tree
breath, vibrato-
free immersion
clean husk
tones hold
slate lanes
skinned connection
to earth’s
tame generous
net worth

poem || Lawrence Upton

Poem for poet voice and dancer
(Dance #10)
Performance. Instructions to the dancer are in square brackets and are not to be spoken. The dancer may also respond to what the voice says.]

Voice:
The door lets in noises.
The room is full of static.
There is nothing but loud near-vacuum.
[The dancer appears, having run forward startlingly, stopped and then started again; all done not quite jerkily, but certainly with little flow in between each separable movement.]
Voice:
I have a troubling sense of light.
My lips are dry and catch together, or so it feels. I am alive, but with pain; and I am alone and in pain.
[The dancer flaps its arms, lifting itself a very little from the ground; but it does not fly.]
Voice:
Who am I? he asks. He pushes the door shut.
[The dancer lifts its wings – its arms – and stretches them out momentarily.
The dancer preens itself.]
Voice:
The world spreads out before him. He will no longer read his notes. He does not wish to read his notes.
[The dancer looks about itself with quick jabs of sight, the whole body poised beneath the obsessing and observing head.]
Voice:
There are other choices. Some offer escape. She looks at the time. All she can do is wait.
[The dancer stumbles backwards and falls. Its four legs go into the air, a small crowd of them. All of the dancer's weight is on its back. The dancer is squinting with ferocity.]
Voice:
His thoughts are not pleasant thought.
[The dancer wipes its beak on a protrusion, possibly a branch.
Things vibrate a while, after the dancer leaves them.]
Voice:
He is aware how high above the centre of the world he is. It makes him forgetful.

3 poems || John Pursch

Escapee Gel

People cackle at pixelated sports figures, swilling grapevine overflow from vast communal vats of perspectival perspiration, quaffing hot springs of crawling anterior insecticide, only to divulge diurnal secretions at the first hint of bubbled gumption torque replay, bent on populated cylinders of raw toroidal battery aptitude.

Solutions resent themselves, devolving into canned apteryx prolegomena of extradited interplanetary fugitives in mummified drainage ditch cooperation relays, from buxom bucket-passing buckaroos to stolen headgear temptresses of tautologically refined handy crampon chirps on partly paradoxical Parisian policies in placid taxidermy lines beyond erupting pallet rehearsal slabs.

“Onward!” barks a crabby cabbie, head all haphazardly extruded by an extemporized extremity of win-swine countercultural delusion docks, sweating out low-slung horsemen in four-squire hunts for shaven yearlings on plasticity’s moody neuronal disputation mix of corncob wax.

“Oooh…” a murmur of escapee gel eludes even the comeliest of clipboard criminal jousters, justifying marginal urchins so tall and hebephrenic, freaking into born-against swindles, staking leeward bellowers to jellied boasts of slowly bending curds in axe estrangement peptide cores, wrapped to headstand card room sparks by malt mechanics on elopement leaf integument suffusion busts of Ornery the Haight, Cringe of Conned Sanguinity or Placid Peebles, the Plexiglas Screed of Rocktagonal Slapdomino Centaurfolders, glomming onto steered rectangular proving cretins on pillbox-sudsy quarter-mustard siphon skates or sights distended just for me or spartan catching cloves a-smoking from soldered mental groins of sorrow to temporarily misplaced punctuated dishrag decontamination quilts.

Off course, the busboy would have hollow wells of ancient wicker headboard bungee chumps to splay in quip-lick satiation flick of several wimpy lisps in stumpy soft serrated jump slots, giving cover to teleporting dogs, imploding gerbils, ferrets on parole from gauzy doe-eyed cabaret girls in feline deafness adoration slams of antsy religious coveralls what stonily depict an ethereally nubile naked jellybean collapse of tightly showering dial-down dope detergent cutie bean, cropped to fungal big-toe whistle stop urethritis in, yup ewe gassed it, Groin Zorro loop-alight Scoff Aesop, the finest dump for Java Joe to gut his proud verbiage in rocks off, hands up, keep ‘em warehouse seizure rules be justified on beaten senseless pathways of candy pain brawn’s tawny brainpan, filtering spooned aristocrats onto deviled highways. 


Flier Brawn
  
Sez, haim achoovian
hoopunt throum sidease,
phrecklet urh prain carioctical
pneusile hephederosib lonche
redditusimp aliontar,
pronquil addu bolitongual
pubmingle horspe tabber,
whex luphian tiesel heind
fauport tson mergaine,
sidden afely hintisguided
nilem dease pretero laternal
indo enaipep prock timua
sleptiblon arafuel
hepter estranian chruels,
pranded blon mirvulens
suv whead fachaseous hunp
eromian zerion tobriliad,
hemshut kilean tonquerel
opiral bior kolian veino
(herencie whan sappes flier brawn).


 Oomph of Oompah

“How can drainpipe overfill emerge immersed in frontal ships of sisterly systemic  biplane feudal swaddling, pocked to pool hall shanks of bunko blips on radar’s strange striated pelican fees?” is all almighty Lola can menage to trout this lovely afternoon, shafting sewn smudge spiked cacophony.

“Blot nad, lugubrious lemur,” Kabuki clips from swells beyond a blonde sigh swig of bubbled lotion toxic alley Haitian, mixed within anisotropic stereo of sordid public sorting gals, corrugated fencing argyle shocks, and pleated parricide, told desperately to fowl in featurette resemblance caricatures of topical mutation.

“Swoon, baby, spooneristic oomph of oompah slump!” Lola blasts his frigate straight south to 1812, cannonade served pipsqueak gutshot hound treading fly swatter reprobate emasculation hogs.

Hit’s true, heft scintillating tinkle his, heaven inch desired wild whirled hen switch weave hind hour shelves. Wad’s strewn is drowned in dime-shore pasty populace gyration dunce, skunked by sextant horde in airy heirloom’s Nubian defiant dodge to dubious inebriation bilge, gonged flowering sin sterling tepid mocha lamb along.

Kabuki peaks in tabbed store recompense, sweetly popping dueling koi in bite mark scythe-line cameo entrails her noggin, torn towards emporia of sanded bandsaw buckwheat blockhouse.

poem || Texas Fontanella



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poem || Jeff Harrison

Insisting All Cent Susan Circus Know
 
old Herr Bibliothekarius,
my dear friend he was,
where is he now?

All Cent Susan Circus Know:
"you, Herr Bibliothekarius,
are Herr Bibliothekarius,
none but Herr Bibliothekarius,
as you've always been, here, Herr
Bibliothekarius, Herr Bibliothekarius,
why you ask me for your dear friend?"

Herr Bibliothekarius' houses
are very clean / here
the grass grows a lot
and too much dust
the dust is unsheathed
our soliloquies like dust

All Cent Susan Circus Know:
"your dust pastured, then, to plaything height?"

away, All Cent Susan Circus Know, away

3 poems || Felino A. Soriano

a selection from configuring recollections

from XXI – XXX


 
Of the age, monumental

my home a delicate distance::birth
into the crawl/walk/drive
paradigmatic lean toward

                                       this legal

definition of numerical inhalation—

entering where light pivots/pulls

diagrammed pulsing
the life toward understanding is the supposed
enactment generations witness

as how the hinge of path
creates permanent (or, altered)
delinquency or gregarious
optimistic segways





comprised dichotomy of a being’s circumstantial circumference

I’ve despised and evaporated

this disdain, an
eventual

curtailing physiology, a melt, a percussion
of heavy hands
drawing dissipation         as ongoing goal-philosophy—


I’ve enjoyed and solidified

of pre-shaped near-irony
if irony was the mirror’s
role in reminding the face
is only of the holder’s       not
the watchers’ indication
of misspelling fathoms—theirs


I’ve divided
these corporeal echoes
collected data to encourage dialogue
aligning dilemmas, dissecting
what’s needed and undesired
within the pure movement
of how structure of moments’
dedicate shape and the positional
decision to halt or
become the ambulatory indication
to find and continue, whole





1:00 a.m.

near where I’ve driven
into 100’s of prior contoured
rotations

              this early aspect of
morning’s spectral discoveries—

home, my home, my dedicated
focal experience of where all comfort
dialogued with what my hankerings
exposed—

driving, a softened silence, left turn
into the driveway::the mirror’s
horizontal quiet an
act of dissipation with
sharp plosion of
bleeding light and echo
of a hitherto truant fear:: the officer’s
voice a blatant breath—

                                                          a genesis of wonder
                                                          if my appearance
                                                          appositional to the
                                                          time’s typical yawn

gave purpose to

where are you coming from?
is this your car?
is this your house?
show me your keys . . . you
look young . . . you
shouldn’t be out this late

                                                          to turn was to realize and
sense created an absence
of fear and turntable
redundance as
each echo of occurrence
walked within the morning’s
remaining numerals

collecting my rest and
disturbed revelation

excerpt from "Everyword: The Book" || Allison Parrish



412703689552707584            Mon Dec 16 22:00:01 +0000 2013     uh        382      775
412711239689981954            Mon Dec 16 22:30:02 +0000 2013     uhlan   14        8
412718790406070272            Mon Dec 16 23:00:02 +0000 2013     uintathere        10        13
412726338337132545            Mon Dec 16 23:30:01 +0000 2013     uitlander          8          3
412733890298933249            Tue Dec 17 00:00:02 +0000 2013      ukase   10        3
412741436984266753            Tue Dec 17 00:30:01 +0000 2013      ukases  8          12
412748988035899392            Tue Dec 17 01:00:01 +0000 2013      ukulele 140      238
412756538806534144            Tue Dec 17 01:30:02 +0000 2013      ukuleles           92        128
412764089413533696            Tue Dec 17 02:00:02 +0000 2013      ulcer    37        38
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412801836866101249            Tue Dec 17 04:30:02 +0000 2013      ulceration        9          8
412809389238910976            Tue Dec 17 05:00:02 +0000 2013      ulcerations       8          11
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412824487563108352            Tue Dec 17 06:00:02 +0000 2013      ulcered            7          10
412832037318713344            Tue Dec 17 06:30:02 +0000 2013      ulcering           9          10
412839588005429248            Tue Dec 17 07:00:02 +0000 2013      ulcerous           16        18
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413081177818677248            Tue Dec 17 23:00:02 +0000 2013      ultrafiche         12        4
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413420915721273344            Wed Dec 18 21:30:01 +0000 2013     ultravirus         18        25
413428467230056449            Wed Dec 18 22:00:02 +0000 2013     ululant 18        15
413436035310583808            Wed Dec 18 22:30:06 +0000 2013     ululate 28        49
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413451115838332928            Wed Dec 18 23:30:02 +0000 2013     ululates            14        24
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413466216221900801            Thu Dec 19 00:30:02 +0000 2013      ululation          19        21
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