Saturday, December 31, 2016

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.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

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

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

text || Peter Ganick

from IDIOM (2010)

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.. .. .. 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

Thursday, December 8, 2016

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