Darren C. Demaree - EMILY AS

***

EMILY AS THE PARACHUTE DESCENDED WITHOUT A BODY

There are some lists

that need to be burned

before we can believe

that gravity isn’t just

a possibility.  I gave up

a soul without knowing

if it was mine.  I tasted

all of the cranberries

before I spit them out.

I looked up at the sky

to watch the fabric drape

the blue momentarily

& I assumed (still do)

that the hand that held

mine was Emily’s.

*** 

EMILY AS A SONG WRITTEN BY HAZEL ENGLISH

We asked for the pause

of the Technicolor

so our blood could spin

with a firm reality

& the fog, the fog came

all on its own.  We left

Ohio so we could leave

Ohio.  That cost us

our hips.  We still tingle

for the full words,

but all this driving

has become addicting.

***

EMILY AS SHE SUGGESTS THAT SHE MIGHT LIKE TO BECOME MORE LIKE THE EMILY IN THESE POEMS

I want to hit you,

Emily said, I’ve never hit anyone

before.  I agreed

to this lone spasm

of violence, because I have

dedicated myself

to cataloging her spasms,

to inventing her spasms, to fiction-

alizing her spasms in a way

that leads to her tasting them,

poorly.  She spits at me

a lot.  I have some regrets.

Casimir Wojciech - STUDIES OF LIGHT

1.

Beyond 

beyond

cells &

padded walls

candlelit  

in heat &

lapse  training the mind

the mind

not to sway  portends

magnification of promisary

folly

silouhettes

steer the eyes

the eyes

beat the drum

the heart

the heart

opens mouths

like litmus moths shed

ticking  tocking garments

of nostalgia 

always torward the light 

eases from the tongue

all traces of position &

hope

2.

The light bends through circular

groves of an opening hand

citric finger nails in a plastic cup

spill over into the street  tapping

against veins of the air

& reminds "me" voices

in the trees  always singing  how

deserts fade in  

and out the fulcrum of sleep 

always

the shadow  one step 

ahead of "your" 

meddeling

driven to witness

the splitting of

tongues amongst

secret windows &

loss of reverie  

3.

"My" hand moves 

across the page 

& cathedrals crumble 

a prayer captive in the stomach

for a hundred years, etc. 

saxophones carried 

by the throat 

through dark alley ways  

shadows erupt manifold.

"I" have vanquished 

midnight with smoke alone  how

can it be? Nameless 

& threshed from the body

sorrow distills 

contours solace  

Debugged illuminations 

ricochet from 

nested mirrors  fixed

atoms of creation

myths herded into

mangled prayers

of "our" tomorrow: 

I know the abyss, eyes 

"are" windows.

In all directions  

in all times & all places

the light permits us to come true.

Joseph Bouthiette Jr. - LEGEND 104

Important information: “this one / wood / river”

Everything is here.

You love mom.

Positive: “follow all efforts.”

Everything is here.

But it is not possible.

What are we doing?

Photo:

[me]

You do not know.

Name:

This is major.

Everything is here.

"Price."

-1-

Give me more time, But it does not matter by my mother.

Tell me: eat.

—Your job?

Also see.

You have a place.

July 20th.

But I appreciate you: "this one / late / maximum / faultless”

Do you see that?

Your house is not being processed.

Name:

The command is: “forgive me.”

I have seen mutual relationships.

—Job.

Is there food?

I'm not sure you're not afraid.

I love you.

Important information: “do / not / think so”

-100-

You want that.

Important information: “it's for you.”

What is this religion?

I love you.

Get started.

“Dynasty.”

-3-

You do not know: “easy.”

Positive: “you.”

Money and bets.

It does not matter.

Photo:

[you]

View many people.

I said: “tell me / now”

I hope for you:

[me]

Dragmacidon lunaecharta. Agelas cervicornis. Artemisina melana. Neopetrosia subtriangularis. Cliona delitrix. Spirastrella coccinea. Asteropus niger. Geodia neptuni. Higginsia coralloides. Callyspongia fallax. Ectyoplasia ferox. Smenospongia conulosa. Myrmekioderma gyroderma. Spheciospongia vesparium. Desmapsamma anchorata. Calcifibrospongia actinostromarioides. Myrmekioderma rea. Stelletta pudica. Niphates alba. Ceratoporella nicholsoni. Agelas wiedenmayeri. Dysidea janiae. Chalinula molitba. Placospherastra micraster. Svenzea zeai. Ircinia campana. Auletta cubensis. Plakina jamaicensis. Pione lampa. Amphimedon compressa. Cribrochalina dura. Polymastia tenax. Cinachyrella kuekenthali. Amphimedon viridis. Neofibularia nolitangere. Aaptos pernucleata. Mycale laxissima. Axinella corrugata. Axinyssa ambrosia. Calyx podatypa. Hyattella cavernosa. Strongylacidon griseum. Igernella notabilis. Stelletta kallitetilla. Tectitethya crypta. Topsentia pseudoporrecta. Merlia normani. Amphimedon complanata. Geodia papyracea. Suberites aurantiacus. Ircinia strobilina. Oscarella nathaliae. Verongula reiswigi. Ptilocaulis marquezii. Svenzea cristinae. Cribrochalina vasculum. Dragmaxia undata. Cliona vermifera. Scopalina ruetzleri. Axinella morchella. Dictyonella funicularis. Halichondria melanodocia. Chalinula pseudomolitba. Monanchora arbuscula. Cliona aprica. Tedania klausi. Siphonodictyon xamaycaense. Didiscus oxeata. Xestospongia muta. Biemna cribaria. Plakinastrella onkodes. Leucaltis clathria. Dysidea etheria. Lissodendoryx isodictyalis. Smenospongia aurea. Phorbas amaranthus. Halisarca caerulea. Cervicornia cuspidifera. Chondrosia collectrix. Spirastrella hartmani. Chelonaplysilla erecta. Aplysina fulva. Axinyssa yumae. Ptilocaulis walpersii. Erylus formosus. Terpios belindae. Chondrosia reniformis. Plakortis angulospiculatus. Prosuberites laughlini. Callyspongia vaginalis. Pandaros acanthifolium. Leucetta floridana. Niphates digitalis. Aiolochroia crassa. Neopetrosia rosariensis. Batzella rubra. Desmanthus incrustans. Lissodendoryx sigmata. Topsentia ophiraphidites. Dragmacidon reticulatum. Hyrtios cavernosus. Oceanapia bartschi. Iotrochota birotulata. Hyrtios violaceus.

Jim Leftwich - Rewriting Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

THE FIRST TWO SENTENCES OF
Poetry, written by Marianne Moore when she
was 32, re- and un- written by me, while I am
62 (I can only imagine what might have been
her excuse)
by Retorico Unentesi

I too an eye tooth, a disk like it there are: things
things that are
there are
things
t
hhinn
ggs
that are
important pork, ports and portals, imported,
imported beyond
bee-Yond
all this riddle of fiddles, fads and faddle,
this rattling of cats and cattle.
Reading it, rereading it, raiding it, it however,
it howl, it fever, it never, it now, ever an owl,
it howling
with (wolf), with a woman. in. the. house. With
a Witch In The House. with a prefect coin-toss
for it,
with a purr fleck coin tempt
tation, for it one, disk
covers
that there
is
in it,
in it,
there is in it after all,
a palace for generic urine,
for the genes of genuine urine.


07.17.2018

Christopher Barnes - Five Poems

1. An Unpaused Hour

Nine tings chase sanity.

Our guru twiddles

A crow’s sequined wings.

Passions jump off wheezes,

Dashed at the holdall’s flames.

Breath-sucks gyrate the room.

***  

2. Bar 64

A Jagger-lipped ox

Smirks in its float-bowl.

The lampstand’s crimsoning.

“Quirks,” underbreaths our tiddly guru,

“Aren’t without their suns”.

*** 

3. Breakfast Ritual

Our guru tub-thumps Ouija learning

Into an atom that coggles.

The rubber shark’s dulceting

“Mack The Knife”.

The Ground Of Being’s egohood

Watusi’s tailwards.

High-muckety, we TLC our sanctified protocols.

*** 

4. Financial Break, No Cheques

This megacosm flumps –

An undisplayable apparition.

We’re diluted by marvelment.

The journey’s butt is an oblivion-fresh

String-puppet butterfly

That coaxes dust

In the attic of our mind fuzz.

Our guru belches –

A pixie’s stage whisper.

*** 

5. The Mediator’s Art

You’ve unfolded these Vanity Fair bodies

Spanning into destiny’s lap.

Poppycock has no improving.

Thighs of our guru’s apostles

Shall be gunked

By Dolly, the sponge-puff mermaid.

Xanadu’s here, well-earthed.