Monday, January 27, 2020

Sheila Murphy - Three pieces




Petrarch in a Petrie Dish
Elan is less a suffix than a plant.
Come hither and reduce.
The mantra you may reverence
is likely the new moisture.
Just advance and time the tale
you are about to wash.
At length, I note the blossoms
au courant, redeeming stale
apostles of our making
that reveal the perp in calibrated
form. A window near the other
window shifts the length
of sidecar blooms and cradles
how we worth our way into
eternity, one lotion at a time.

***
The Floor
Let me disappoint you at my leisure
only to await dismissive looks
too plural as I see my shoes
blend with the land
as if the sky were merely
painted on behind the treetops
where I’m not supposed to look.

***
Sample Size
An ample quirk of fate reverted to the instant ivory of long tones loved by fingers used to sand. Reconnaissance emboldens lucid water. And the planks just pure as peat. Give us this fray our domiciles as underage revocable young trucks. I blemish what I’ve caught and steel myself to winter as it grays out layman’s terms. The limit of my sensory indifference ranks softly in the park of venerable snowmen. Just a place to park behind the sleet and grow.

Storm troop, botany, the rewound decibels at work

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Michael Estabrook

I MIRROR IN / EE  OO/ O LUNCH

gleaming-white
bump   of
a
red-haired
golden   shining
enough
for me   her
finger      nails
her lips

EE  OO
the side
road
mowing   her
up
green   &
short
short

O LUNCH
lunch
staring
with the scuffs
them
that
vacuumed
& washed
couldn't have
chose
better
to eat
around
my mouth
over
her
she

made   today.

Sunday, January 12, 2020

Joseph Kushluk - Five Part Mess

Play every part for the five times. Before perfoming the sequence make your own order of performing.

1.
K ko kuA G a - K k k uA G a
Re Ra R AA A G E EEK
Ka Ke K A AA GE E E K
Gnu - Gnu - Gnu - Gnu (Pi Zi Ka To)
Aa Ki Ga -x -x -x -x -x/-ch -ch -ch -ch -ch

2.
Ab` Ge - `OE
Ta `I`E
BOO TIA

3.
HHAABE
PPACAE
OEB-OEB

5.
H H H H - BIICHE

4.
Bou - Pou - Lou - Sou - Nee - Noo - Kou
Nee - Ni - Nee - Ni - Vee - I I
Do - O - R - D - Tw - No - Zza - Tche - Tche
Ska - Ska - Ska/ Cka - Cka - Cka.

6.
Ffff - P!
Ffff - P!
F-f-F-f-F - Pppp!
Fp - FP! F - P!
P - ppppppppP!P!P!P!

Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
Ffff...
Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
Pppp...
Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!

Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
Pfpff FPPfPP PFpFff
FPfP pF pf - PF fp FPF - PFpff
Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
FFPf p-pp f-p-f p-tschk-ff~
pf-p fpf~ pf-p fpf~
Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
P-Fpfp - FPFPp - FPFPFPFP - pfPfpf
Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!


Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
Ffff...

Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
Pppp...
F - ffffffffF!F!F!F!

PFpFff - PFpFff
PfPFff!!!!!!~

Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
PFpF fP fp - Fp pf PFP - FPffp Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
FFPf p-pp f-p-f p-tschk-ff~
Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
P-Fpfp - FPFPp - FPFPFPFP - pfPfpfFp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
Fpfp- pfpF - PpfPFPF
p - P - p - p - p - F-p-F-fP

Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
Ffff... S~~~

Fp! Pf! Fp! Pf!
Pppp...
Pppp...  F.
...Ai!

Coda:
Ai Ai Ai Ai AI
AI AIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAI~~~~~~~~
A - a - a- u - a.u.- a -u.a -u.a - a u -a - u - a

I - i - i - i - ia- iau
I - i - i - i - ia- iau
iau - iai - iau - iau
A_. A_. A_. A_. A_. A_.
I_. I_. _.I_. I_. I-I_.I_.I_.I_.

8.
A~~~ a~~~ A`aZANZ
Z - A - Nz
NzA - za-za-za
N. N. N. N. Naaaa!~
Z Z Z Z Z Z ~~~~~~~~~ Z-z-z-a-a-AA!
A~~~ a~~~ A`a

A~~~ a~~~ A`a
ZRS! Z
J-xe!  Rj Nb Cm P! Nj-jJ



A~~~ a~~~ A`a

-
A~~~ a~~~ A`a






A~~~ a~~~ A`a

Sunday, January 5, 2020

John Grey - Three Poems

1 GRADUATE Z

A girl from Missouri
blooms in the bowers,
the showers.  I like the
wind’s preposterous violincello,
the flying sequoias 
coursing through the park.

I watch the medicine man
in snow shoes
lassoing dawn stars.

Like shadows trumpeting,
nights breed fireflies 
in a wild-cat town,
a whirling fantasy of candles,
alien & vain.

Sunset’s harp-sound
the white quartz shine
& blind man song
humming root  dim fields of ringing bells.

A new graduate  
lean as wheat 
her gratification vast & weird.   
I could shag & twist
and come out tangled & awry.

But the skies
are the very whimsy
and their sails, bark temples


***

2 END GAME

the list of service personnel
sober rejoicing    addressed to press 
& radio   an official announcement
followed by ruthless aggression & brutality

for several days   the issuance
broadcast a communique    reliable
   information
that this is true

aroused speculation 
encountered little or no resistance
various scattered pockets
secured free passage
possibly loaded with troops

aside from actual operations
require vast amounts of equipment
& will no longer complain
about being orphans
able to see from a foxhole
a spokesman on the way out

***
3 JEALOUSY

very pretty girl stood at the edge
accidentally fired indoors.
with the kids that still thought
in terms of 
the next playing field
maybe they want the heart-song for themselves.
         &  now that stitched emissary
pride shrunk down to trembling,

she smiled warmly, sweetly,
graveyards feast on dead voices. Tombstones can't wait to
weep  for Hemingway or O'Hara or even Tennessee Williams.
as eyes would have it,
            she figured if you want someone to make you omelets
bats & balls must be left behind

become the softest option
broken bedroom windows were forgotten.
the act ends with two encores
what's hummed on the way home
& then a distant crash of glass