2 poems || Volodymyr Bilyk

1.

LULL'n'TILT:

Pound-a-dAB.

clap-lapse-sigh

quell,

Fret -

Yields an urge to scoff at odour

2.

doo 

doo 

doo 

doo 

doo

Moldy doss - 

Fanny kip - 

- drivel-pull

2 poems || Joel Chace

from Initials

B.K.

Here is the photo, black and white, of a black movie

camera shooting an actual scene.  Buster, The Human

Mop.  In some films, actors pretend to take still photos.

The father sewed a suitcase handle into the back

of his son’s small costume.  Once, things were things, and facts

were facts.  Empty Yankee Stadium:  he hits

a homer with an invisible bat.  The Boy Who Can’t

Be Damaged.  No begging.  Old railroad ties blocking the tracks

are things, and they are facts.  The scheme was to photograph

directly into the lens of the camera filming

itself being photographed.  That night he shattered every

bookcase pane he used a heavy, visible bat.

In Syracuse, his father hurled him into the audience,

breaking the precious nose of a Yalie heckler.

Anesthesia of the heart; all going to hell.


L.M.A.

“He was so old, he was older than his birthday.”  Justice

is the charity of the wise.   Loretta Mary Aiken.

“He was so ugly he hurt my feelings.”  Then mind is rightly

called beauty because she does the works which we recognize

and speak of as the beautiful.  Both babies of rape

given away.  ''Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me

but bring me a message from a young man.''  God is an

extended thing.  Maybe not the brothers but the Smothers

Brothers brought her forward?  “Eat your majesty’s grapefruit and all

that stuff.”  The volunteer fire engine exploded

her father into so many chunks.   The genii, however

marvellous, are always accompanied by bodies

worthy of them.  “Sometimes I wish I was a dog and he was

a tree.”  Rebop in clown, and first at the Apollo.

text || Peter Ganick

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poem || Jeff Harrison

Mechanical Flabbergast

 

comfortable engines
with moveable supernaturals
a gloomy sort
of mechanical flabbergast
a poor recommendation
toward the quarrel about the rug
& the watercolor lessons
any idea as to the quarrel's contents?
a direct appeal & nothing else!
elude
lavishness suddenly
ship-shape unfortunate!
impatience in a game,
the contents very much abandoned
quiet there, just think it over,
praiseworthy after a pause, contents
are emblems, else, of hospitality

poem || Lawrence Upton

ask crazy questions

dreamed a dream

and there is none that could declare

edgy afternoon

or finding out

really thinking

dreamed a hard swat across the next half hour

chosen to reveal to us

how it is all too late

every clean beast can understand a kick

exerting control provokes a liberal tug on the chair

and every creeping thing bunches

to ask crazy questions of abuse

and I have seen

very reasonable prices

kicking sick stupid white men

who run the air by you

a widely flared short skirt

and all the fountains pattering the very centre of the earth

propel your body across the river

bright red material

covering your wrist firmly

dragging you know what

door open

we specialise in the dry land of heaven

obedience to the great deep broken up

how can this be happening

an answer of peace

and pharaoh said unto all too late

male and tug on the greens for causing

to lose the face of the waters 

2 texts || Michael O'Brien

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3 poems || Felino A. Soriano

from a wearing of light

Awakening among a solid view toward isolated memories

i.

          to the ghost’s wandering:

my hearing wears a mask to record

unseeable breaths

                            finding way within throats

                                 and gardens tomorrow will respond in with legacy:

hankering hands

     woven

     wearing my watching around waist and waiting emblems: trust: token

shadows falling

mirror-toting death, abstracted synonyms profiling death

as

does law toward skin of certain __________, subtracted

ii.

Nobody worries.  Taut spectrums hide within verbatim

recollections.  My rise is maxed     was a more so

ontology of putting paper onto wounds and directing

behavior to undergo illusion.

                                             Relevance is undergoing relapse.  Judge

                                        -ment means analogies are connecting vari

                                        -ous returns, and I’ve become a problem fo

                                        -r analyzing mathematics.  Subtracting, cu

                                        -rrent-though-bored each human need is a

                                        -lways adding and insinuating need.

iii.

i remember blinking: death’s slimiest hand

     stole all

grandparents’ virtues and totality of breath

                                                                  —in the one-corner of a lefthanded house, piano stills in paused correlation    and

rhythms relax within open mouthed echoes

oscillating room to speak space                  and confirm bodies

once belonged to a genetic fluctuation

         

Park skeleton philosophy

beside me                                         ,

                                                          your length is

loud;    speed against struggling slow

                                                         ness

or with an orange tongue to which my ease is erased and alert is the body

building strength across what pivots in mind and aggregated need to inhale

ataraxis

When realizing is a form of alternate identity

stating to a mother

           I attempt     is a privilege of     reconciling annual mistakes

     her asking to ascertain

          is akin to the rock’s inner

               belly being rolled and caressed

     by noon’s 2^nd fastest moving

          honorary hand

               escaping a sole dirt

aggravation translating language to plateau at prosper

                    rather than positional insistence at negative conditioning and

proprietary devotion to forgetting the body’s ornamental faculty

2 poems || Raymond Farr

The Crimson Mechanical Tiger of My Will

They or I said

It was “the rapture

Of endless

Approximation”

—Tan Lin

It was 96 stifling NY degrees maybe

Or it was a million degrees exactly

& whenever I walked I sank down in the pavement

A man had tweeted me the wrong goofy coordinates

& nothing occurring in present tense was made of steel

Wasn’t at least a little bit his fault or mine

Our fate was in the stars like everything he told me

I was bending each moment/the people inexactly

To the crimson mechanical tiger of my will

& so I thought the obvious was a metaphor for the obvious

& no one knows why

In a gash of broad daylight I let my phone ring

Or why the impossible man stood there like Mao

The 20^th C picking my brain in a room at the Marriott

Sometimes I desired something just minimalist

But the road kept on going like a boy reading Faust

& so we took all of our mind games & played

Yr-death-makes-me-sad in the human zoo of our skin

& nothing we deemed the particulars was ever

Of consequence—a million degrees exactly

& so I felt a bomb go off in our teeth

I hadn’t spoken I realized in 5 or 6 days



& Other Passages from Paradise Lost

Despite a hint of diseased feet

Dante entered her womb

In cobalt winter—

I thought it was crass

But I still think it was art—

A weed half tulip half Hershey’s bar

Was holding its own in soft new beautiful shoes

It was like a disco ball swirling in a sea of pink light

A thousand facets pregnant with the pauses

Of a thousand more

& someone at Cactus Car Wash

Was sending word on ahead

That everything looked good

& we’d better act ASAP—

Our poems are in vogue, sd Kunst Kick

Simply because there’s no such thing!

poem || Lawrence Upton

how it may work

polyvocal

those beyond premier unanswered application

news headline news

white convincing photograph

the futures getting at truth

coming had solicitation

ages of restriction

she or he

the empty back thought

contacts

might things touching

things made by millions

the corruption clashes

an whole polygamy linked

city and church

god and church

the industry

the money

known of

some principles

talk training

pressed retracings

of one's own outburst

the world's climacteric

as living

mind with

the night

the pictures

towers

shelters

staggering

among brains

domination assured rent

being enjoyed

bond age

wanted decision

welcomed

colour

blood

simulated

hospital

insistently

sustains

bottomless danger

and love

one on knees

shall swear

singing the question

the waste

the huge office

text || Peter Ganick

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