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
Saturday, October 31, 2015
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.
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poem || Jeff Harrison
Insisting All Cent Susan Circus Know
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
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
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—
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
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