2 poems || John Pursch

Cream Puff Larks

Stored waders glance 

from swords to spiny 

newcomer crumble kits, 

suturing two gathered knees 

to conning flour canasta victims, 

pressed toward encrypted masthead hips 

by dance hall crow dementia’s 

flurrying hourglass pronation module. 

Hats worm torqued 

swayback water paws 

to hexing spawn cream puff larks, 

coddling flocked grog implosion 

vixen feeders with insidiously 

punctured ventral semolina 

racetrack fits of histrionic 

stereotypes, aphids on etheric laps, 

and crenellated bicycle tents.

Playpen Cocktail Panic

Gnawing ateliers from

sumptuously verdant reality jowls,

piers defect to creature fumes

of tangled fairground luminaries,

holding foul assonance

for cottage spandex credo tongues

on prolix decimation galley cruise

eschewal motes.

Split sea poop deck telegraphs survive

in prolonged sanguine leather sheen,

golfing inventory ration cores

to feathered mammal

prayer duct consequences,

humbling seven treasonous debunkers

with shiny hands.

Cemented notions sate

theosophic fitness preeners

on courtside dalliance betrayal’s

virulent nuance of nonchalance

and feral oozing gator grip

from tooth-line mystic plethora

to boomtown sonar ichthyology,

pinning traumatic swine

to playpen cocktail panic.

poetry || Peter Ganick

for matt, to the sound of aphex twin

memphistolcetes ganglion binaural
hosannah ivrogne gascoyne galleon
decimal tracery volunteer seria
environment ourside doorway vicar
ubiquitous lemma third rasa enigmatic lemming crown vielle
masonic venite aboriginal vehicle
novocain geme viscalya brochette
vim vishigosh bulletin laboratory
exigetic alongside gamete snowfall
snail-paan neither basket rim snowfall edify nonet nissan negotiator
noose genetic languages emptor val
de mar mise en scene gaffe nasal cart nobbing hobble hobbit remote ever
asmora unruly overshot bulletin capulet nifty creche asymptote vacant elongate mirror clandestine overshot
answering magetism’s waking storage
smelter another wavering clistero cactus barnacle middle lipid savor
snowfalling bygone maison d’etre accent accord winnow gleich stabilize
denote was genetic algorithm predecessor answer to gargle oceans wand
animate culpable washover salting easel chocolate nutshell burner debate milligram chortle cough sylph madden ainsi broche orbit brioche ceasar volunteerism icrostich oboe lade acco neither
guardedly propitiate elm snare deliverance bivalve exegetic ladder thorax bygone resynumbet.

poem || Brandon Theis

Fauxrael

Separate lighthouses blink synchronized, factory tilled bludgeon parameters, limiting sequences to pool creep, sleep state microcosms, blanching excrement in tiled halls. Holistic mind camps cramp constraint factor three, district principals drift, daft teeth clenched.

Slime galleons gallop slow motion trigger fingers, emote quiz sanctioned epochs, slipped plump quill: drilling nano-hopes deeper still, forked horde mutants pour sours on the hour. Honest brokers broken on tokens of false potions. The alchemy stops here. Trout manglers, wardens of the wait and placation. Apply within.

Somber shrapnel tanked on the tranquil, fraught harder, harsher breathing rites, divine insights but fictions` vicious visions, humbled replicators bemuse with flirty minds, scorned in bitter fibre. Transferred malignancies prop power poorly, drop dowry, flower fouled asymmetric Lent, hell bent on ass factor nines, blackened soul of lustre parallax. Looming shrewd lawyers lean heavy, lightning round bound to real time cloaked muffin dewars, masked with zebra colored spices.

poem || Lawrence Upton

coarse means of developing

multivoice

white paper stained in doubtful songs

trust supplying a columnist becomes frayed at work

transition of meaning's all alone

 lights on urban centres with watchful eyes

our truth's desire?

our truth's desire

our truths desire stares and winks at us

 universe inferred but not explored

gets back its shape and efficacy

reached for the centre of apocalypse

look at a new millennium

here is fun

passion's in the cellar of hell

seen and returned --

a dog screwing a dead dog what did you learn? –

love words of dope with costly perfume

slice of a lifetime

transition of the transition on the heel of a voice

you're my mouth creates confusing reflections

under intense ordering she tells the innocent

a rather large outspoken cold man

bold manipulations

necessity of the rainbow

transition of voices wavering

a boy

special effects

like bare winter trees

the moon

body below the pool surface making sounds

poem || Jeff Harrison

Dandelion Seed, Thundery Niceties

 

the headless click
of cranes flying off to war
dandelion seed fell to the floor

delayed fragilities, cotton cunning
molted the opera and pumped more tea
at thundery niceties, widening mystification

pome || Billy Bob Beamer

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poem || Lawrence Upton

simplify your study of eschatology

polyvocal

just a bowl

a skull

worn this year with unnamed therefores

road ends everything’s dark

but elsewhere courtesy lights’

attack on language

amorousness not allowed

mouth held coded

no one suspects

we are either in agreement

or content with craft

flash flood over the tongue lying sideways

shadow gulping head

swallow together

dogs cannot believe it is unlikely

unfinished business and computational frivolity

larceny spinning

and straying audibly

whetting vision of palindrome dry walls

breakdown becomes noticeable

becoming audible

that information is more

bubbles rise

and self financing

and self governing

with the police on the gutter

impure beyond that information

secrecy in agreement

amorousness too knowing

in the cave of death

2 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer

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text || Peter Ganick

from sharpening (a grammar else)

163 - each notion tangibly less machinic dissents with inhumane globalities, the content of salaam and function telling otherwise impatient mirrors the far-reaching necessity has been outed from glamour and schizoid manipulations.

164 - motives for resistance lace the formulaic, the smallness of ontological values repent to heat will ovals' seekers deploy where everlastingly fortunate impossibilities, task sovereign natures bellow out facetiously mannerist grandiose natures, one sized for plugins, the other as mutation's executor - naturally matted languages team to shred ambience with shocks as the crisis belittles itself.

165 - asserting whose value-related partaking someone else is noddingly loyal, face-shift theocratic and demanding where hypnosis after vulcan repayments, rotor blade eithernesses prevailing three-fold universes token into with apparent open-door political surveillance.

166 - attractions re-emerge and lay fallow essential mirages. nature as potion to demand befriends a less automatic summary.

167 - heat where polite versions tangle re-opened forces. contractually the blossoming at a description saluted with motion as serenity of balance pod the mature escapist of rattan and cement.

168 - ratcheting sudden prospects incoherently apathetic imports relative natures evocative as purees with glamour ciphers taxiing down rudderless amaretto sun-downs - text issued that which wallows in orange storms, practices with service to the embedded remittance.

169 - dancers render apologetic the risks of tangential railing, at which partition no snide tassel opens a fundamental link seeded at the resilience caused well-bagged.

170 - dissenting with documents, agreeing wide of the corrupt escapists totalitarians at heart, provoking an eminence-ghetto neatly nighttime tolerable to erewhon taken to extrema of which lost devotions render.

171 - czars' tactics thought to bargain utterings with modems as a culpable role tacks out into waters' moods named in sleep batter-ghosts without thumps, cut-outs - tattering a shore often so mutable as crucially exogenic. therefore at worldly results, networks themselves in blotted disallowance to slather vital movements in parsed omission to defragment a sot in depression as marginal eructations - demand with a team sorrow can't remove.

172 - essential moods to baggage of rending salute between a sieve pampered in sulk and residuum, so estranged attention got hammered out of a sliver in parcel tonnage mien to the repenting simulacra, without the eons telling ecology witness and refuses - naturally respected as the cordilleras gather shape, so a rag.

173 - named foot oggi simulacra, telemachy as parallel pomegranates telephones theories thermometers - icy attention span - delight in on the sampled imposter, so graded oats lesions siddhas’ tourmalines.

poem || John Pursch

According to Manatees

 

Unfurled captive aerosol groupers

swim freely into store-bought youth

containment vestiges of itchy hallways,

flossing coral feelers clean off

the beefy round surf line hurlers

before blurred cave-inching parties

can dabble in fleeced retainer juice

capitulation drool.

Heaven smirks down

on notarized munitions deals,

compounded to farmland bustle

and stubbed to stuntman kitsch,

discarding flavored offhand wanderers

with just so much penitential dust,

governed by owl heat.

So much for capital punishment,

banished by pugilists

from dog house tender fleets

of wooden macadamized nougat,

borne dourly on the saving crests

of frothy diplomatic yarns,

from Slower Pindropia

to Cauchy’s Deviled Hamster’s

pejorative denouement,

sold to cake queens

in cowering indignant paginal sundries,

heading for plainly coated

inguinal preparatory nun’s hens.

According to manatees who visit the tendrils

of regret machines in semi-annual dry-dock,

lockets left by sounding parties

in the crunch of Frowsy Isthmus Repair (circa 1407)

have recently been turning up in radical card rooms

near the port of Breadly O’Simian,

in frivolous waves of crimson detrital flood jets,

known hourly to local sandwich vendors as

Ankle Shim Express Entendre Souffle

or Cremation’s Final Kith.

poem || Peter Ganick

for THOSE WHOMEVER

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poem || Jeff Harrison

Portrait Of Queen Nab With A Broken Neck

eyes, closer play the better part face,
there nature - or - they, the faces,
wore little else in the spot above the neck
where the undivided appears and she
arose on - or - like the wave that changed
the young to scaffold occupants, it wasn't
too long ago they were reaching for clothes
while spitting their teeth out, that time, they
claim, seems extraordinary in dusk, while in
daytime seems but familiar as rodents
the first victim of their plague was discovered
vomiting three dresses - red, white, & black -
these are the clothes they tried to nab
on the way to the scaffold, it was an honor,
she said, to be the first one prognosticating cold
but gloire passes, passes past even the wildest ever
who occupied the scaffold, the common held their
own, even when her breath dropped beneath them

text || Lawrence Upton

The last day, a prologue

polyvocal

aesthetic sympathies

mumming epicurean longing

life in no official justice

unity of exaggeration

mechanistic development

synonymous manipulation

in greedinesses of new passion

calling out

link by link

to realise danger

frustrated by sub-plot function

recurrence of action

throwback of opening appearance

appearance crack up

recrudescence of breakdown

such belief elaborates

even artificial objects

animistic poetic ascription

intimate characters beyond conventional fetish

sadness incognito

culmination in hopelessness

idiosyncratic sequence

causation reformulating action

unity of affect

persistent remains             beyond meditation

evidently the universe

awareness reproaches blaming

turning to consolation

of progress

forces dooming to engage jeopardy

deserves this morning the implication

response of the elements cluster

everyone else is busy

the field's pushed peculiar never threatening

a lot of the others over stocked

chain of new blood

into gigantic comfort

and you're free

man of the field

a yawn pushing for the army

we could shorten everything

poem || Volodymyr Bilyk

2poo7woo4doo-doo2poo6poo3doo-doo3poo 

6poo6woo7doo-doo6woo7woo3doo-doo

6woo3woo boo4woo4pooboo2poo4poo 

7woo4doo-doo4woo3woo8poo

6woo3woo 

5doo-doo6doo-doo3doo-doo3doo-doo

4woo8poo 

9woo3doo-doo5woo5woo7woo

7woo6woo6poo3doo-doo 

6poo3doo-doo7doo-doo7doo-doo9woo 

2doo-doo8doo-doo2doo-doo2doo-doo5woo3doo-doo7woo

4woo6doo-doo 8poo4doo-doo3doo-doo 

6doo-doo6woo6woo5doo-doo

2poo6doo-doo3poo 

6doo-doo2poo8doo-doo4poo4doo-doo8poo9woo 

4poo5woo4woo8poo8poo3doo-doo7doo-doo

6poo4woobooboo5woo3doo-doo7woo 

6woo8doo-doo8poo 4woo6doo-doo 

8poo4doo-doo3doo-doo 

3woo8doo-doo7woo7woo...

6woo4doo-doo 9poo3doo-doo5woo5woo...

text || Lawrence Upton

loop

[read rapidly]

plastic for a place in the world ended in autopsy at issue

human-based sabotage tends towards dangerous views

the authority danger people are less real about ecstasy

in the world’s killing happening inside themselves expressed

return sentence secrete influence heaven in a pit

slaughter then ended millennium promises under

text || Peter Ganick

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