poem || Peter Ganick

locusts.

the teevee is spewing content.
it is content with that.
content that is naturally involving.
evolving. as it is a   concept.
all concepts evolve, they are not static.
just because they to be made of words when written,
this is because the words, that cd be simplified to be electrical impulses,
have meanings—the content is basically meaning.
meaning is inherent in all matter.
just like the spiritual dimension is inherent in all matter, really.
the spiritual, if i may say so, is characterized by a vast space.
space is the place, as sun ra said.
this brings up 2 points.
1—who is sun ra?
and
2—what is the content of space?
is space empty? can space be empty?
if space were empty, what would its content?
ultimately, all this writing provokes in this person-as-person,
not writer, is content, whatever that content might be.
it is a logical circle in which the steps are not directed congruently.
or, there are no parallel lines except when one postulates their existence.
nature doesn't create two exactly parallel lines.
the mind cannot actively conceive of two concepts simultaneously.
the existence of concepts is thereby disproven,
and their existence would not be in opposition.

2 poems || Volodymyr Bilyk

Feeling helpless over inconsistent personal matters
 

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poem || Kronos9

user generated content No: 5 

skin toned rubber

press whitely mills

the new deal

 

bus culture is spirited Luther

king henry

and the separation of church and state

hilled capitals point break 

where we find puritans

ol’ boy confederacy

printing monopoly money

camouflaging sacred geometry

geomancy

for a gay mafia papacy

 

bus couture is

a fucked community 

so kneel down and come get some

devil’s candidacy

all free 

1/6/2014

Don’t come to me w/books bout our nature, you as my mate or birds hanging on a wire. Picture of us at the hotel faded & disclosed to tell me there is another that has replaced me.

status is not my quotient

lesser than 

greater for 

the sum of these parts

9 poems || John Pursch

Antipasto

Safe in future

underwear,

unseen ballast

freezes blue

to antipasto

skyline.

White Space

 

Air left

surreptitious

vacancy.

Emerald Wink

Thawed enamel

racehorse kicks,

earshot filling

waitress.

White thematic

subway crawls

in calcifying jelly.

Emerald wink

to symbol calls

a darkened collar.

Alleyway in

suture brown,

ice palaver cutaway,

mauve iconic sister.

Tan

Then tans silently,

though rocks move.

Endure

Why ask

bottled

time machines

for tentacles

content

to end?

Geriatric Klepto

Seashore cliff

exposes

crawlspace.

Salt glows

under lazy

sunspot.

Geriatric klepto

turns to socket.

Spansule

Boats in heavy slalom

sail by crawling

slipstream income cow,

steady-state ignominy,

corridor of ham.

Time erupts

in tensile hoot

of owl and closed

cabana dry-off.

Who needs towels

when you got

spunky old Slammy,

hotter than a class-Q star,

legs like skinny newsprint?

Ingenue

Polynesian

hoi polloi

anticipates

an odyssey.

Argon humidors

poo-poo opulence.

Groovy ingenue

dreams a smiling

coda.

Explaining Tar

Ariso granulan quelion pogular taproch,

swentie endumon poodgle,

fron im tugen ochtibian phlugel zimber,

pronch em zonger phroom asim

tegrinuam ghoch chep.

Ectobal ilieph progon tabular smoog,

edgi slean duentioch procher,

sworb moodenton poddle hom,

gendien porten mofferen bilembel priddle,

korgen drong espudentia greng;

theeter hund exietorem blon fedgereb

sectionaron cortil duliate explian tariat.

Hexclam achian tiopo hoints

beround arsoichre toomp,

flumuval drue hitchy eyeway,

trun mupher danchy membians

fo diriendal aliph oomian

surrang itankled lante,

abbiontelial cirrion saple tonk.

Sodie beawe cillta

veigler plom couserage

teddle oxaliar mendiondu samion,

hugher beal plue chiningian cieze.

Pubble cheepok emklunom,

phromer phonertial digence,

chez oom nishing eison,

burple noumiens peetle

lausitage mon chenale.

poem || Philip Byron Oakes

Manner of Speaking

Coaxing etiquette out of malaise. Watered down to a giggle catching
sight of private parts of the play. A tangle’s chance to grow legs for the
journey. Crannies stuffed with promises to bury the headline in a shadow
of itself. A tock’s first hint of a tick in its past. Amidst fictions of death in
passing, pushing straw men to shed light, like burden blazing trails to
smitten hallelujahs in the dark. Keeping the dream alive on borrowed
air for purposes obscured from view. To shelter the sequence of come
and gone, to see the balance find its shadow in compliance with the tilt.
Keeping collapsible landscapes underfoot. Steps into shoes keeping
pace irrelevant upon arrival. The faint scent of an image, auditioning
to trigger the memory of an unscheduled day in court. Falling for the
weight of the worldly. The gravitas. Scouting routes through the
hollow for echoes run rampant in the cold. A peremptory unveiling
sowing seed in the boneyard, mulled for clues in the round and down
to business. Naked off the tongue. Baring secrets of the fall into arms
without touching, the fear of breaking the bubble calling for more.
Putting the squeeze on a pedestal. The emphasis upon a relic in clean
underwear, for swearing into the shape of tomorrow. The stuff of
which without there isn’t. A way of being next to with the empty
all around. Calling on the dead of night to join in. Filled with lack
of mostly, adding up to room to breathe the nostrum in so many
words. Predicating the gist upon inflection buying time at a
discount in the hurry to reason why.

poem || Tony Rickaby

SAFE & SOUND

18 Signal Regiment - Adjutant General’s Corps - Advisory Group on Military Medicine - Air Warfare Centre - Army Air Corps - Association of Chief Police Officers - Association of Security Consultants - Atomic Weapon Establishment - Aviation Policing /Metropolitan Police Service Operational Command Unit - Aviation Security Operational Command Unit - Biometrics Institute - Border Force - British Security Industry Association - British Transport Police - Brittania Royal Naval College - Centre for Defence Enterprise - Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure - Child Abuse Investigation Team - Civil Contingencies Secretariat Committee - Civil Nuclear Constabulary - Commando Training Centre Royal Marines - Communications Electronics Security Group - Counter Terrorism Command - Counter Terrorism Protective Security Command - Covert Policing - Criminal Records Office - Crown Prosecution Service - Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership - Defence & Security Media Advisory Committee - Defence & Security Organisation - Defence Academy of the UK - Defence Business Services - Defence Crisis Management Centre - Defence Electronics & Components Agency - Defence Equipment & Support - Defence Industries Council - Defence Infrastructure Organisation - Defence Intelligence - Defence Nuclear Safety Committee - Defence Safety Authority - Defence Science & Technology Laboratory - Defence Scientific Advisory Council - Defence Sixth Form College - Diplomatic Protection Group - Directorate of Forensic Services - Disclosure and Barring Service - Dog Support Unit - Economic and Specialist Crime - Fixated Threat Assessment Centre - Fleet Air Arm - Force Troops Command - Forensic Services - Government Communications Headquarters - Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary - Her Majesty’s Prison Service - Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs Immigration Service - Home Office - Immigration Enforcement - Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration - Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament - Intelligence Corps - Joint Electronic Warfare Operational Support Centre - Joint Forces Command - Joint Helicopter Command - Joint Intelligence Committee - Joint Intelligence Organisation - Joint Services Command & Staff College - Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorist Command - Metropolitan Police Service - Military Aviation Authority - Ministry of Defence - Ministry of Defence Police - Ministry of Justice - National Ballistics Intelligence Service - National Computer Emergency Response Team in UK - National Counter Terrorism Security Office - National Crime Agency - National Cyber Security Centre - National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit - National Fraud Intelligence Bureau - National Hi-Tech Crime Unit - National Identification Service - National Offender Management Service - National Police Chiefs Council - National Probation Service - National Security Council - National Security Inspectorate - National Security Secretariat - National Training Inspectorate for Professional Dog Users - National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service - Nuclear Research Advisory Council - Parachute Regiment - Parliamentary & Diplomatic Protection - Perimeter Security Suppliers Association - Permanent Joint Headquarters - Police Advisory Board - Police and Security Group Initiative - Public Order Operational Command Unit  - Reserve Forces & Cadets Association - Royal Air Force - Royal Air Force College - Royal Air Force Police - Royal Armoured Corps - Royal Artillery - Royal College of Defence Studies - Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - Royal Engineers - Royal Fleet Auxiliary - Royal Logistic Corps - Royal Marines - Royal Marines Commando - Royal Military Academy Sandhurst - Royal Military Police - Royal Navy - Royal School of Artillery - Royal School of Military Engineering - Royalty and Specialist Protection - Royalty Protection Group - Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-lethal Weapons - Secret Intelligence Service - Security Industry Authority - Security Institute - Security Service - Security Systems and Alarm Inspection Board - Sentencing Council - Serious and Organised Crime Command  - Serious Fraud Office - Serious Organised Crime Agency - Service Prosecuting Authority - Special Air Service - Special Boat Service - Special Forces Support Group - Special Investigation Branch of Military Police - Special Reconnaissance Regiment - Specialist Crime & Operations - Specialist Crime and Operations Specialist Firearms Command - Specialist Protection - Submarine Service - Supreme Court of the UK - Surveillance Camera Commissioner - Territorial Support Group - Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee - The Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit - UK Reserve Forces Association - United Kingdom Special Forces - United Kingdom Visas and Immigration - University Officers Training Corps

poem || Lawrence Upton

Expressions of Interest # 6

a quick quiz about stuff worth knowing about.

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backlight, bauxite, name that thing,

despot, recite!

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deists.

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wiped spouse.

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poem || Jeff Bagato

Another Absence

       Only in a minute, after

                         the dream is gone

  do I realize the poem

               was never written

                       

         an image can be held

                  but words too

                              slippery,

    somewhere in gray

                    glowing green

                                        blue,

                       another story

              rests

                 among the neurons

                shyly keeping the ending

                        & the beginning

          to itself—& even far

              far >>>>

                               from its own

                         awakening