Wednesday, August 31, 2016

8 poems || Lawrence Upton

Next time #1

Game Show Box opens itself Price crash Runs out the Blood Takes off the top of any standing Sort of mucus leaves the Sky

some kind

Skin Floppy and slimy What milk does when it cools Heavy on the spoon Chewy Breathe it in Awkward to get rid of It was so hot yesterday!

I thought I was going to die Died in the skin Is cast Died At the wall Hauled up before Buy a defence False?

Judge for yourself Rancour Anti personnel antique Anti personal Limit of End of a Head continues Right to the end she was reading Her body's pulped Rites to Limits of understanding Come here A light at the end of a Come hear Let me Waving and wavering Let me compensate for this Imbalance That Which I feel This and That The floor gets buckled on with rooms Earth surface patterned with Bits stuck into Mush‑rooms in a virtual shade Sheltering trunks slipped out of the vault they puncture

Tumble sky fall Can distinguish our voices crying?

Each one of the dead with its own Exemption from forgetfulness Bales of stripped human skin stacked in sheds Hands and feet chopped before She shall have your Chronos is already eating



Next time #2

Now's the time to keep quiet as some keep jewels and private letters Passport Credit card To seek others' quiet Press them Keep silent Out of vision Bow the head Victims nodding assent at the executioner A dangerous time Following rules including engagement To convenience Licking shit and naming it pleasure Copper age Seamless decay in worked out minds Basking Crags assailable Playback voices from Equality of recording Each stratum of equal value A system of classification system of class Beads and images rolling Apart to be declared individual In aftershock of unreported earthquake Gun goes off A corpse comes back as Management Worship of ancestors Verbal tags Beeps of personal Mass folly Have they been told They have entered data Do not enter A goat trots down a sticky road Wanting to escape our steady pace Wanting the shade beyond a linked fence Turns repeatedly to swelling hills and hesitates High hot sun on crosswires of the barrier Looks back at us Eyes outcast Feet cleave almost dead grasses Trots A fox circling the nettle patch Under the plum tree Brought there by others' bone scents Trapped by lack of deductive logic



Next time #3

A finger in her mouth A gestural cigarette A ring upon her finger Scent of poison Screams from thickets in The churning stomach Multilegged the ground Milk teeth Blood teeth So much darker than a cave or eyes Persistence of failing vision Light put out put out again Doubled darkness and all the imprecision A coupled darkness With what?

Unnamed An unknown generating heat The only constant Towards infinity Don't bother me with these things she says as she blows smoke



Next time #4

Bright yellow She is stroking her lip Old End of a conversation Two blokes laughing as they bundle out a door alert Spit brown and bubbly on the dry pavement Zip runs through the lycra desert Tugs up Shuffles under gaudiness encasing her and walks Almost sexy To herself



Next time #5

One fair-haired cherubic face balloons Begins floating Belly spherical Antshape Baker's confection Guided by backjets from tidy rounded buttocks Monkeys Leap and jump to try to catch them Fill them with water Make them swell Onlookers are shouting Puncture those bodies Stop them Seeding Saturn in the ascendant



Next time #6

A rocket A bomb A can of beer Way the light catches Flames start to ivy the side of a shed Is that all there is?

Within a year his name Bones gnawed away Skull parted Eyes cream Is this enough?

I can easily give more Relentless I am The boredom relieved by the boredom Emptiness honour Sing me a song I can sleep to with security Honour my offer



Next time #7

Comfort a word for people who run first Their limbs disingenuous Parakeets precipitated in the asteroidal atmosphere That is There are birds in the tree And their feathers are falling These birds which are parakeets Illustrative and exemplary if patchily of early nineteenth century prosody It may be that the talking birds flocking into an empty space in my fields of vision Cold and crisp A shrinking planet Shrivelling A windfall in a dry spot



Next time #8

A blue strip of the sea spreads into empty dark Smell of chips Fire and an An angel from the sky Overweight Both of them Angel and sky A mouthful of electric light bulbs How do I know this is my last train home?

Keep her happy says someone Keep her happy She may open her legs And when you have arrived you have not arrived and where you think you are is not where you are It is so simplified!

Faces reflect from the outside world I don't know why My cuffs Perpetual fingers Lots of laughter A canal where you'd expect meadow A world that isn't bombastic That isn't perverse A comb in the back of the hair like an axe An androgynous face looks out at the low sky Cables connect us We are part of a system Intelligent or not Really?

Rely on me

3 poems || John Pursch

Apes’llcatchacoldya

Thermopylae ocean potential evacuates in valid situational duress, pressing smiles of mild tentacular imps across larvae, pupae, and utterly Latinate construction zones, seemingly oblivious to the needy needles in a hayseed’s dermal undertow. Carriages return from temporal backwash, sleeves of prancing trench coats in tow, loaning time to stellar dumping grounds.

Arcturians press me for distal advantageous agents, nominal occlusion biding its mimed idiosyncratic scenes of lifelong fluidity to moral grapeshot. Urns expose their heavy lidded icons to justices of peaceniks, apparatchiks, suppository dwellers, schooled bookends in steely plazas, rotational dunderheads, cropped Canola providers, claviform Andromedans and spiraling penultimate dowagers. Dancing dandelions implode to the tune of shaven silicate pillows, xylophones, and steel drum dharma tummies tucked to tender foil.

Crickets fill the kitchen with backbeat hum refrigerator noggin egging on and on into surveilled and early morning consciousness of misspelled youth in closing tundra fulmination jest and Jetway rigmarole about how much pasta a 787 can hold.

I rally to the cry of a thousand shyly lowing beveled wartime reenactors, ducking Mini balls, canister blasts, bayonet thrusts, roundhouse road apple cores, steaming piles of baked beans, the onset of winter in Apes’llcatchacoldya, angst astern amidships aport abeam, a casting call for skulls and crossbows, slinky luge in loogy like-along lassitude in lassoed loopy locomotion lavatory loaner lobs of hearty tillerman, teaser tortoise shell game ammunition, abundant amphibian monocles; binocular monogamists on guarded pond club quarterly gazebo tears.


Ringo Tin

Long dazed eyeballs opine with silicate of glassy earshot standoff in wooden vestibule of summer morning turned to ash. Counterpoint flips all cortical between cerebellar canoe breath, funnels longings straight to idiosyncratic synapses clogged with flounder.

Paratroopers filter down from future skies in escalator ostentation, squeaking trusty language socket quench of sold departure lungs on high burrito setting forged to mostly tattered knots untied by prosperous old gents on skidding alps. Three clouds in synchrony bely effusive stereotype of timed travail, slipknot architect repelling whacked bottlenose elf in studio haze.

“Some kinda sick legitimation, ossified,” Kabuki sold to dissolving llama, frisking downtown You’re an Ordinary Tractatus jumper. He produce plain salt expression dribbling sweaty greatcoat, palm of hamster drowning door in screening ovum, cans a tin of wholesome meat for legal squeegee spectroscopic tally hoax.

Gecko crawls from federale badge to topple entrails of an opaque mouth, piecing gathered tombs to tetanus walnut sequence. “What’s that smell when combs elide elusive sidewalk?” querulous emphatic cistern pleads gotcha nullity.

Furious Clem he hasp known college, why he sparingly grabbed predated grape spool, bet he barter banter sunny drinks oar funky Slammy throw supper hands in frustum agitation pork of the quarter. “Free to comb these hearsay hillsides fer lawn-aligning caramels, Sephardic understatement, sigh bereave,” Slammy ventures tenuous in supine air rendition.

“Time conniption fins expect mere gravy coast from Ringo Tin, your alabaster slackened stash or finicky vinegar hold pent olive in exploding taxi,” federales chime in unitary songbird shove to portal dime-store coffee stool in 23rd Street soda stand Forgivenyawn city limping home to swallowed craving dignity befriending inkling reciprocity of sidling footfalls.


Within a Winking Wombat

A cacophonous calamitous concomitant sea of pilloried pillbox hats ties illegal shores of lewd illicit batsmen in foxtrot caramel conundrums, fallacies dribbling down the stubbly fairy tales of mired thematic thunderbolts in lightning laundromat design to rowboat thugs and ghoulish grams of cochleae born from barnyard bullock barriers of bastion swine tureens immersed in swollen chaff.

ChapStick churns to beckoning churlish chard of card shark calumny, callow coolies cooking in criminal incrimination stool of Crimean carbuncle clods, gloppy gargantuan gargoyle chaw, effluvial consonants, assiduity of foveal pejorative, campy handspring ballast beams eroding bubbling mums to submariners on furlough in sportive anemometer downs of landless unlauded gonad hoodwinked floodplain firs of tangled incursion felt.

Somehow wares imagine tombs beyond a carapace of slaving oven cheesesteak charioteers, mimed to stormy clover, palaver troves of salutary animation fluid spent from wistfully proverbial catwalk herbs and tacky ionic closet caper pizzicato spreads to sodden leavened eaves above below behind a meeting meddling mendicant interred between mendacity and inner suburb medians of inching ichthyologists.

Stymied by esteem, calliopes clock into cloven foothill hovering parity, tipped ahead in swapped speed climb to unreality imbued with sensate surreptitious sojourners, and intimate tasseled penny chants to floods of known serrated teeter bots in tufa flits of lost lineal imminence.

Homing aches, does intake stake to cold ham turnkey tree departure, sating entrained and garish barely codfish smothered slaps of chance in dancing slipper pipsqueak service, turpitude of worn torpedo beauty, broken shafts to mined and sallow sunken freighters, snorkeling spelunkers, jawed jalopy junket jukes, giraffes in garrulous inconstancy of feigned fallacious frugivorous frustums, frustrating flippant flagrancies with wiles within a winking wombat.

Monday, August 15, 2016

3 poems || Daniel Y. Harris and Irene Koronas

leon bovin and susan howe

under glass the reed fresco pose could be a magi perspective really a narrow hunch where no clear converse archaeological luxury draws tone themes or underpin layer allusion probably given a strong sense of place the series emphasis hops study mood knots by window less woven by degrees women sweep minuet doors after confinement blaze given spatial incongruity elongates night delivers his portfolio a brief pictorial representation in vertiginous light and shade without regard to any color arrangements interplay his contrast similar characters his paintings foreshadow retains a classic disappearance includes apology and any confusion from his sad myopic she found luminus metacurio texture the collage performance collaboration that only sensibility defines as visual verbal electro swit or the current electrode trod in field effects transistor and modulates wide innuendo a nod on tiny tree wings comb archive her musical fold resonates cavity and throat composition on canvas cutouts hinge telepath books and pull forward dark masticate clover ambition from charcoal guistic sketch his bleak watercolor environment money the day after art dealer refuses him his despair hung from forest trunk posthumous led the cursive wild inferiority lost in refuge again foreign grammar acknowledge each other meaning intentionally say something about establish hishery continues until an almost alarming tendency to ore quarry may change difficult letters modesty proceeds her multiperson cliche meretricious nevertheless eccentric oblique vocabulary an alien inherit soft semblance disperse fit into one category an oxymoron essay muse absent the drama concern voice which is often erase mimetic incognito provide for eloquent testament with medium subversive banter ever stare into a lake rivet the power to shade error lost like historic gibbers red streak rhetoric the angle cyclones spend in sacred research an estimate wide range still live form compositions found in traditional landscapes entertain contemporary romantic the view from a thousand years of rejection has brought a sophistication to further common theft


bone and skin

red and white blood cells store minerals and enable mobile as support for the body tissue is two types cortical a central cana yellow literal osteoblasts and osteocytes around vessels papillae and cancellous osteocyte sand osteoclasts osteoid seam is pithelium a narrow region of newly tissue, adipose tissue and elastin main cell types or fatty marrow in adults red marrow is lymphatic are fibroblasts formed organic matrix howship lacunae orresorption pits ability to resist torsion forces after a fracture from globular and plate structures the hair follicles skin hair and glabrous skin adjective cutaneous sweat glands sebaceous provide the dermis with a bumpy surface that interdigitates condyle crest spine eminence found in the bone marrow of the femur the ribs means the skin latin cutis 1000 species from in palms of hands keratinocytes proteoglycans such as hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulfate and bottoms of feet granulosum spinosum basale cells are formed through mitosis at the basale layer macrophages and adipocytes the hypodermis differentiate and become filled with keratin reach the top layer stratum corneum and are sloughed the epiphyses carpal bones coracoid process medial border of the scapula and acromion are still cartilaginous off or desquamated mineral calcium phosphate in the chemical arrange termed calcium hydroxylapatite column is multiple layers epidermis are melanocytes langerhans called keratinization and takes place within week the outermost layer of the epidermis consists of 25 to 30 layers of dead cells glands apocrine glands tubercle or tuberosity depend on the protrusion shape and location long bones are said to incorporate the inorganic cells and body temperature have a head neck and body reticular region are the roots of the hair sebaceous glands sweat glands receptors nails and blood vessels veins of the dermis merkels cells the epidermis helps the skin to 19 phyla stratify squamouse with an underlying basal lamina only regulate of vertebrae and pelvic bones vess and blood


goliath and orphah

goliath was a son of orphah a haggadic and homiletic born by polyspermy and had about one hundred fathers thrasonical ungodliness taunts and boasts it was he who captured the ark of the covenant and brought it to the temple of dagon he challenges combat during morning and evening to disturb prayers his armour weighed 60 tons and his sword had marvelous powers his heart carried the image of his downfall david strikes him with the stone he runs to him before he dies and goliath says hurry and kill me and rejoice before he dies he opens his eyes to see his slayer is an angel who killed his genuine name he was one of four sons of orpah the daughter in law who did not stand in loyalty but returned to her own people in spring time the road east of the dead sea was destitute nothing to offer them the giants could not find acceptance unless they became believers and confession but sister orpah decided to turn back the nape of her neck a polite way of saying the woman who turned her back who left the known that she could do better without her mother her grandmother was queen married to eglon who did not have to die from hunger as widows in foreign lands driven by famine and arranged political advantageous marriages her sons forming an alliance with any king after the death of a man husband the real name of orpah was harafu she found a new husband the result of a shrewd alliance with unwanted people there were still giants but most of them had moved to the coastal plain when orpah became the wife of one of these eminem or giants she bore him four big boys ishbibenob saph lahmi and goliath her boys were killed and orpah died in an effort to protect her last son  

lyrics || Volodymyr Bilyk

1.
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Look at that sky

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Let's dance
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Let's sway
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If If

Because 
tremble treble
Let's dance
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Let's sway
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You hide your second
Arms 
they fall like flowers

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