poem || Christopher Barnes

Lord Byron Buys a Self-Parking Car

Oh! Thine be the gladness   of shoe-gazing
convenience
Forgive me adored one        for
homestroking all chonged
But the heart           
           blisses-out,
downright scooby
And man shall not break it   nor a bona
polone


Glossary of slang: Chonged – Stoned; Scooby – Delicious; Bona – Good; Polone – Woman.

text || Noel Canlas

IN THE LANGUAGE OF ACTION

1.

In the language of action loading.
In the action of language loading.
Pause for the analysis of action in the language of action.
Pause for the analysis of language in the action of language.
Action ongoing, language encoding.
Language ongoing, action encoding.
The action of language encoding ongoing.
The language of action ongoing encoding.
Pause for the analysis of action in the encoding.
Pause for the analysis of language in the ongoing.
The encoding of ongoing language of action in action.
The ongoing encoding of the action of language in action.
Analysis encoded in action.
Analysis encoded in language.
Pause for the ongoing encoding of the encoded analysis of the language of action.
Pause for the ongoing encoding of the encoded analysis of the action of language.

2.

Ongoing action of language on the language of action ongoing encoding.
Ongoing action of language on the action of language encoding ongoing.
The encoding of the ongoing language of encoding of the language of action in the analysis of the ongoing action of language.
The language of the analysis of the encoded language of action in the ongoing action of encoding of the action of language in the action of language encoded.
The language of ongoing encoding in the analysis ongoing encoding in the action of the language of action.
The action in the language of the encoded language of encoding ongoing analysis in the language of encoded action.
Pause for the action of language, pause for the language of action. Pause for the encoded action of ongoing encoding.
Pause for the ongoing language of encoding action.
The action of language in the language of action encoded.
The language of action in the action of language ongoing.

3.

The encoded language of action in the ongoing encoding of action ongoing encoding.
The encoded action of language in the encoding language of action encoded ongoing.
Pause for the analysis of the ongoing action of encoded action in the language of action.
Pause for the analysis of the ongoing language of ongoing language in the action of language.
The action of encoded action ongoing in the language of action encoded in the action of language.
The language of encoded language ongoing in the action of the language encoded in the action of language.
The language of the encoded language of the ongoing action of language encoded in the analysis of the language of action ongoing in the encoding of the action of language on the ongoing.
The ongoing action of the encoded language of action in the ongoing language of action encoded in the action of the ongoing action of encoding the language of action ongoing encoding in the language of action.

4.

Pause for the action of encoding the analysis of the ongoing encoding of the analysis of the encoded language of action ongoing in the action of language ongoing encoding in the action of ongoing language of encoding.
Pause for the language of the encoded analysis of the ongoing encoding of the action of the encoding of the analysis of the action of the ongoing encoding of action in the analysis of ongoing action of encoding.
In the action of encoding the language of action encoded in the action of the ongoing encoding of the language of action in the ongoing language of the analysis of language ongoing in the action of language encoded in the encoding action of language ongoing analysis in the action of the language of action.
In the action of the encoded language of the ongoing encoded action of the language of ongoing language ongoing the encoding of the analysis of the ongoing analysis of the encoding of the action of the language of action encoded in the language of the ongoing encoding of the language of the ongoing action encoded in the action of ongoing language encoding the action of language in the language of action.
In the action of the language encoding the action of ongoing action of language encoded in the language of language encoded in the ongoing action of action encoding in the language of language ongoing in the encoded action of the language of action.

5.

Pause for the analysis of action.
Pause for the analysis of language.
Pause for the analysis of encoded action.
Pause for the analysis of the ongoing encoding.
Pause for the analysis of the encoded action of language.
Pause for the analysis of the action of encoding.
Pause for the analysis of ongoing action.
Pause for the analysis of the encoded analysis of language.
Pause for the analysis of the encoded analysis of the ongoing action of language.
Pause for the analysis of the encoded action of the analysis of the language of action ongoing in action.
Pause for the analysis of the action of language on the analysis of the action of the ongoing encoding of the action of language on the language of action.
Pause for the analysis of the language of the language of action encoded in the action of language on the analysis of encoding.

6.
Pause of the ongoing analysis in the language of action loading…

poem || Lawrence Upton

Composition

[multivoice]

and sails upon that subject

and looks at me

her skin's a circle

breaks logic

is a feeling of urgency

going to smash the white wall

smell of the tree brushing space

to break the door down

an innermost room

can be a crack in a circle

going

jests at the sentence

sIfts

it off the road

going

speak in your life

sit in your own punctuation

a crack in the middle of heaven would not solve

be uttered unformatted

in the population

an economic infrastructure

perception has a violent motion

mumbling no answer

it's almost empty with a pause

tremble!

between two figures how stands the mouth now?

separate a head to utter itself?

two halves of the country

by paragraph breaks?

became physically weak

she was! she speaks

and sails upon that subject

and looks at me

understanding darkness

when lights flicker in

is muttering no answer

poem || Elliot Ian Ross

Laugh with me, Jade

*Spi'ritus. est. retrorsu'm. ri'sisti.
osculu'm. mihi. non. sta'gnantibus. terra'm.
Ego. au'tem. habeo. exi're*

              jade

*ri'su'm. in. ore. meo.
ut. et. accipiam. vos. ad. me.
fulgura. in. ri'su*

               filled

*ri'su'm.
ri'sus. est l. infernu'm.
amor. et. sanctu'm*

            ...soar

text || Peter Ganick

from IDIOM (2010)

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.. a .. d .. .. r .. .. .. .. .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. r .. .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. .. m .. z .. .. .. .. v .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. a .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. .. m .. z .. .. .. .. v .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. a .. .. .. y .. .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. .. .. y .. .. h .. .. .. .. .. v .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. .. .. p .. x .. .. c .. .. r .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. .. r .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. .. m .. z .... .. r .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. i .. d.. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. r .. .. .. .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. .. m .. z .. .. .. .. v .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. a .. .. .. y .. .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. .. .. .. .. y .. .. .. o .. .. a .. d .. .. r .. .. m .. z .. .. q .. .. .. h .. .. .. .. .. v .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. .. .. p .. x .. .. .. .. p .. x .. .. .. .. h .. .. .. .. .. v .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. .. .. p .. x .. .. .. .. v .. .. .. p .. x .. .. b .. .. y.

poem || Lawrence Upton

A disheartening scenery

multivoice

fingers concentrate

video of doing

So, you were diseased; so?

So?

modes of paraphrase

ridiculousness from someone

who couldn't live anywhere else

exploration of changes

mundane sensitivities

comprehensions each

aethereal emptiness

interpretation of shadow

shifting

often obscured

submission to taste

some overlap

more confidence

in favour of words

copied into music

claustrophobic

concealment

landlocked space mimicked

with breath disruption

a disheartening scenery

3 poems || John Pursch

Half-Hour Affair

Slackened fling 

in slyly flexing 

appetite perdition face 

of outsourced being. 

Panties bite my underarm 

with axle hive impeller belt 

teasing skinny highway chain 

beneath diurnal swarm.

Keyhole

Anthropoids emerge in topiary paste.

Owls emit a freckled melba. 

Flowers film at forty furlongs. 

Choice corrodes to limpid keyhole.

Tungsten Tomboy

Quirky piebald tonic quaffing 

laggard galleon glowing temptress

longing frothy tankard Taser 

taunting cosmic static charging 

clockwise time tomato teething 

tungsten trampoline.

2 poems || Volodymyr Bilyk

***

mendacious mot.

Shining 

"ONE

for every 

Zim 

250,000,000,000,000 

 

to 

 

FIVE

for every 

Zim 

175,000,000,000,000,000".

 

 clap clandestine clasp lisp

***

Bit.Bat. Do.BE.Do.

Do.9-Dit.Do.BE.

Di.8-too.Doo.Bop.

Di.8-gee.Do.Bait.

Di.8-eFF_.too-8.

Do.BE.Do.Bit.

Do.BE.Do.Bat.

Do.BaD.Do.Boo.

Di.8-tit.Do.Buss.

Do.BaD.Do.Bait.

Do.Buss_.Do.Bee-toe_.

Do.BuD.Doo.BEE.

Di.8-too.Doo.Bop.

Di.8-as.tooth-nigh

Bit.Bat. Do.BE.Do.

3 poems || Vernon Frazer

Dreaming the Heat to Wake

fire scent season 

evokes thrills of first breath

*

exaltation software escalates

the armada’s drift to recollection

memory stars a lost compass

*

wander lines parse love

a lark of shuddered longing 

yet the season sings mad

music birdsong light 

and squawk a morning dial 

turning oak louder

their words attempt to wake

*

fibrous necessity ripens

a scent no rarity usurps 

wandering spirits heard

a season grown random

left its dreaming essence

*

flattering music 

pleases a broiled desire tray

mad 

with naked platitudes

*

dreams ascend 

as minute-hand smoke

a blank page 

exhales narrative defection 

 Language on the Course 

      word emporiums 

caddy bagels miss control 

     intrepid clatter      boom boom

the vocal rogue worn  shatter currency

magical definition 

no stagger filter elicits wires only 

slipping a classics grudge 

buttons best before  faded             (profit)

catacombs fretting forever

          (worn decimal miles)

the latitudes  

slow pork locus left port 

                                  mentor alongside 

cargo peaks 

a stolen rehearsal ratio      gone

     habits their revenge

     a binary whitewash 

the fetal repentance 

     manipulated the dream 

          lacing gargoyle choir pockets 

templates bartered 

not the sly outplay 

empty repentance        rehearsal 

      to play a well-bent lecture frenzy

Delivering the Music

the postmark that got away

replied no sending firm attached

or matter

               to the subway

     stationed             at last roll

           blithely to oblivion

                        *

aiming at the train stop

no message            detached

 ambience in card charade

   patio affirmation        a reflux insurgent

no aromatic emblem           attacked

                                    the gastric epitome 

                           *

no disincentive        urgently packing

                       to stay

              a                  while

          packet             surges

          ahead              destroying

            the track 

                          least afforded

                                *

reaching digestive entropy 

the rage in the gut dispersing

lettered pages 

of leather intention

     silver studs 

     left there for the beating to dry

before 

           the hand played

          on 

the frayed cuffs

          a

      melody          cleverly left

            

                   as origin

   and destination

3 poems || John Pursch

Haste Machine

Across ripples in glass, to snow-blind sheets of papered edge of peppercorn, to pepperoni osmosis in tender call of bird-loin wingtip cornrow blowgun art confabulation self, a stealthily concocted haste machine flows constructed within mind.

Forgiven surveyed yield containers wind in pulley hopscotch trudge down marigolds of solitude to semiotic bas relief to filigree of idiosyncratic public feast to festive scoop hatch plunker ducket tone hut symptomatic crawlspace.

Fumes abandon hairpiece warlock set on side lobe carrion mouthpiece wise guy cracker harp in tuned tie gator swamp clash bursar nag off semblance liner quote of chapped azimuth.

Out comes spurtin’ specious sea cane, spurious and moist, in night of cool reclaimed eclectic bunt valise or furor into goat emotion totem spool of wirehair lozenge sizzle trap, adorning pleasant kumquat skeet or herd genomic bleating ritual reparations gristle onto narwhal.

Peanut Entrapment

Peanut entrapment 

junket horse routine - 

Doo-dah, doo-dah! 

Peanut entrapment 

junket horse routine - 

Oh, doo-dah day! 

Inflatable stentorian bivalve! 

Piscatorial pecuniary pleats! 

Peanut entrapment 

junket horse routine - 

Oh, doo-dah day! 

Ocean Timer Note

Periodic escarpment vats underflow to scintillating bagpipes, coring umpteen repopulation cinders, leaving wolves in filtered ought to nought in naughty nougat stew cravat in lariat of carat rot or taut and strengthened natty pinecone tales of pithy urban ouch.

Headboard scramble hearse detects a miniscule comparison etched in cold canary felt-up yellow turn to icky lung o’clock of airy underlings to pork pie sunset crews on furlough.

Foppish cave-in daze emerge huffy centaur ladled oatmeal whistle whet we settle on noumenal knees in Dowsed Sioux Quota crumbling cider juggler chug of fastback handball knuckle dipswitch.

Tinkered eyesore riptide sawtooth buckaroo in ocean timer note to bubbling conscience, ridden fit to pea pod tidal polish ooze on crab leg lichen Tuesday tumbleweed or when they daisy ball ungainly clang or clamor infestation tout tomato tongues too topical to torch de Tocqueville’s totally top-heavy topiary tonsure.

4 poems || Texas Fontanella

A Line From Kevin Spacey

You repost this on Defacebook to help
lesson the damage caused by phenomeno-
logical nosedives. What redness remains

should go down in a couple of days, but
knot as a result of text messaging, Bitcoin
or back-room handshakes, but rather a de-

sire to get then go up and atomize, hasten
the slope of any extinction curveballs one
of us may need juggle. What is retreat

a better term then? Use it next time, be-
fore repeating this ad nauseum ad nause-
um. No. I don’t know anything about that.


The Bureau / Of Statistics / Can Prove Anything

Recent reports indicate the average human at-
tension span lasts a grand total of eight seconds
& that our sexual anxieties are exacerbated by
both homeophonic & homophonic translations
of Vietnamese genre fiction. It’s almost always
hammer not summertime in Brooklyn. I list ab-
out listening to Mozart. This is not a further cit-
ation but a necessary maintenance of our bank
balance. I bring Banksy back inside. The kitsch-
en howls. Tessa and I exchange hellos as I head
up to the station. Today the train ran on thyme.


Abderian Arthur

Clifftops combine w/ fear & loa-
thing to celebrate last year’s pap-

smear campaign trail. It’s for this
raison d’etre that Reg Mombassa

& I are joining the Liberal /Natio-
nal Coalition this coming spring.


The Tooth

1. never much
liked
that Angus & Julia Stone song.

2. Our origin
green energy / pass
word was _______

3. Darn7chi.