Thursday, March 17, 2016

2 poems || Philip Byron Oakes

Lividity

Vagabonding with others woe to behold.
Visceral samplers tickling tempers tuned
to triggers pulled from the crowd. A hand
in making the most of a foot in the grave.
Under suspicion of skin. At a cost of
inklings crumbling in the knowledge. By
any measure deemed modern to a purist
sense of touch, gone mad with burlap
for the right to feel nothing at all. Pitting
proof against the pendulum for the swing
shift of fortunes, made to do their dance
in a trickle down to tacks. A perpetual
likelihood of odds evening out. Priming
footprints on the floor to feeling able to
walk away on a cushion of sunsets.
Stalemating with ancient urchins of the
dirt, to propagate a brooding scowl
framing an issue to suit a shiver at the
thought. At the behest of dimensions
invisible to the science of the time.
Harnessing the sparkle in an eye, for
equivalence in the pall of blinks and
blemishes in the dark. Holding fast
to the slow burn, a stumble’s
redemption in the fall for
gravity’s primacy in the
end. 


Action Maquette

What comes so small it makes giants of us all.
Mired in commas putting stutters to the test.
A stippling of a little this a little that breaking
precedent in for the long haul. To a t crossed
getting to the z’s. One non sequitur after the
other, corralling the tangents for the journey
back home on the range. The breadth of a
point made to linger. A collateral haunting
conceding wealth to the emptiness of
hollowed’s gift for resonance. Swinging both
ways of the world. Subsequently without
pause as an excuse. Thus the page turns on
itself. Having once but never again. Effectively
mirrored in place of being quoted as saying
in pictures that wobble the mind. Down
south of a feeling for what makes the
silence tick. The doorbell ring for both you
and the you you want to be. Or so the song
goes oompah loompah within the gutted
carapace, over the crippling hysteria of
the noise.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

3 poems || Edward Nichols

Augmented inversion

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ppppermeatepraj-------zlep-------gholen=====



                                     __                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 var-cah-qereVv                                                                                                                                                [vor-degis - cremp-elnis-blum]
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neutralize  candid reform  reembursing holographic    vapid   cij-agg coalaze eggplants      twirling.
dued brukej lind  frok mazaire quvin beb sryv hevy Clent.
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Insult   undivided   dunces.  elixer    esvul klink  

                                      9&%<>??///;;::''''_-_-_-_-__-_-_-_-_-_-___-_-_-_-__--__--___--?//Gia``m``````Pia
KKerrr                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
****((9)) (***)55%%<>@@_-_ 3###    loli-gagging  at   Mannquins


DETRAMENTALISM

Cold   futility   Redead   down  FUSION</Synthetically Plastered
(metrolocopic   delinearization glad grine ek-sic.)__Sublime  Slime
Torus  torus now healed  by  MeneShine  (goats piss)  mime   maim  main  >999< >
metroloscopic( Point ertrex code) sonic  >(        lecni)<>  ) HEME ruuz  VIAM  nurse
glissando forte                                                                                            Blatz sootttttt ^^^|\\\\
                    Majority  has the hyper glycemic arkticccooolllddd =====slugs drae sludge                                                                        gias, rem belch  cleger 
><><><>><<&&&    -_-_-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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                                                           slotteg umnolh]]]]]]]]]]
                                          glog hep2 fersh  am906mojooooooooooooooooooooooH tickthetockasxenij


G. R. O. G. 

  Pantekkellion[[[[[[[  plankton  ishrion   Ishnaucrellian
BALOIMNOMUSHOUSLY    <6>  ((9))/// Treton     amilias lllllllbbbbbb
Eezzzlabuoyated     eat  ALL_UP,.............(skrumpshesh  he-roww
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     Ivory avarion  wormnneaues5%9(((6))))))))6]]]]}]]]]
enterley'  mie-mie-mie---t{y]   Mayan  (lie--LIE==LIE==
LIE


Solomon   of   Throma  and  Manus/////////\\\\\\\////\\\\\\

The   muchtreascures  Moltach      Tomaltach-_-

og   MacDonogh.     Dalmation,   Damnation.   

I   think   offen   WORD   VIRUS.
I'dah,diddle,dee,deaue   picket  peck,peck,peck,peck.

Pick the fist.First 1-2-1  Ray, radio? No.Ratio.Oh! That's it.

The first one is ONE   Ide.

A   Grey  Cloud(with greey cloud  -Width-Golden Lightening


Bolt.
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2 poems || Stanford Cheung

NODES OF A HEA/RT

*6:30 pm Maryward Flashback

When a thrush sings half [hea/rt]edly
their song, scaffold between their smile

like a burning fingernail
lodged in salvation

Their sense of pride cemented
across their face-
claiming whatever
land- they- land- on

frost/pine/wayward species

so that we feel numb as a savior

caught in the headlights

or sometimes, a backbone intentsion
composed less firm than

              history



MESSIAN MASS

a    f l a k e   in a chapel

*

dust/scatter/overwrite/

grow merry with time

and bliss the tainted flower

how many matches would

you like to buy

before prayers
no longer fall true [?]

like 9 lives in an octave (12345678).

They say my hands can’t r e a c h

single files
of a permafrost memory

2 poems || Raymond Farr

The Juncture at,     ,Six Pence per .Sauna
         
a,    ,poem,    ,is,    ,property.  ,of,  !existence
a,   ,pencil,  ,lead,  ,is,     ,brimming,  ,w/,  ,flux, 
,w/,  ,much,  , talk,    ,&,   ,w/,    ,vertebrae,    ,written,
,horizontally—,Cinzano,  ,sippers’re,  !key
quickly,  ,the,     ,poem,    ,lags,  ,lacking,  ,a,  .pronoun
do,  ,you,  ?copy—I,   ,paddle,   ,a,   ,pall,   ,bearer, 
to,  ,whiffle,  ,ball,  ,sound,  .tracks—,I,    ,am,   ,a,    ,day,   
,rife,  ,w/,  ,cappuccino,  ,at,  ,Balzac’s,  ,place—
,in,     ,this,   ,house,  ,of,  ,wooden,   !ships
,in,    this,   baked,      metal,      field,     ,of,   ,goldenrod,  
,I,  ,fail,  ,to,  .enhance,   ,I,    ,profit,  ,from,    .circumstance
it,    ,is,   ,all,    ,about,      ,the,     ,six,  ,pence,  ,per,  .sauna
I,   ,prefer,     ,writing,     ,downwind,   ,of,  ,p,  ,inman, 
,at,   ,Gloucester,  .Y—come,  ,&,  ,get,   ,yr,   ,freakin’,   
,pencil,    ,lead,    !Frankenstein
the,    ,way,    ,to,   ,a,    ,man’s,    ,stomach,  ,Stella,
,is,    ,thru,    ,[pogrom I],    ,&,    .[pogrom II]
signed,    ,[dept. mgr.],    ,Holland,    ,Tunnel,    ,of,    .Love   
will,   you,   ,loan,   ,me,   ,a,   ?sawbuck—or,   ,what,  
,were,  ,you,   ,singing, … ,yr,   ?hymns—I,   ,couldn’t,  
,quite,  ,pinky,   ,ring,   ,everything,    ,you,   ,said,
but,   ,when,   ,pilgrims,   ,float,   ,’em,   ,you,   ,said,
,no,   ,one,   ,needs,   ,of,   ,translated,   ,as,    .of
but,   ,acts,   ,in,   ,seven,   .words


Raymond as Giotto as Multiple Deranged Angels
      
As dissonance coheres
Someone blocks every door

LAW says—I am him, convinced he must be him
A hand or charm on Opening Day

                        In the embers of violins
I binge on turgid elegies—blanched to bad flesh

In the chambers of a stranger’s weird civic head
A dog or dragon paws beneath skin

& wandering thru corridors singing ditties of winter insanely
I paint little sky lights—a black web on crumbling plaster

& where murder as war lasts but a fragment
I curtsy out of love, in terror of love

Murder & speed arrive gasping at walls—
Angels on car hoods

Angels in armor
Midnight etc

3 poems || Rus Khomutoff

Untitled
 

Modernity is a fable
like the spongy vapors
that rise from the earth
cracked by hot rains
carousels of distinction
on a gnostic highway
bulletins of divine inexistence
quantum collisions gone berzerk
wonderland of escape velocity



Atomic Petals
for John Pursch

All you nobodies worshipping the
mysteries of creation
stockpile of silent okays
and circadian rhythms
beautiful twists of primitive innocence
the dreamcreature missed the rigidity
of assumption
charred hindsights that
blitzkrieg like precision weapons
sybaritic sparkling points and
ramshackle chords


What Is the Future? The Future Is Now
 

Short lived euphoria
in a dynamite death chair
blunt and boisterous contradictions
as flitting glimpses of grace
jarring anagrams of upstream DNA
brazen moxie
cursory way biomes
emerging as fashionable blessings
soul of serene praxis

underneath manic seas

Monday, February 22, 2016

5 poems || Vernon Frazer

One Way Mirrored

thematic diaphragm
          left in the cleft bucket surging
                    epaulettes on the pragmatic

vintage` latent
billionaire vignette   surcharge
balloon                                            vigor
      schematic
for a canned filibuster
    no     aching at the margin
semiotic 
 pillar ascribed       contextual dismay
     circuit   charger         burst
                described                      insolent

         fire through the foreworn dwelling

*

no scheme left pillar climb
a room unhatched the rooftop
    under the piling

left empty guests churning the vacancy pit

     turning the spittoon roast
     to the scalawag vexation bluster

    borrowed thematics 
           burning a non-issue 

the cost a rigor flask 
left behind the epithet burner
            unmasking 

the thread
 of an elite montage

*

questions left unasked
received no furthering
     at most  an empty
 declaration                designation

left its context
       meaning

     eventual displays chart
          swelling the new task
        before asking whether

empathy snatchers enlarge their bluster stake


 Cold Showering

allow quickened weekdays 
hatchway grinder boat wet labor

     its vain skyline
     lost cohort thongs

rendezvous crevice trademarks

splotched self-starters 
barred generality implosions

     scrotal reflux thickening
     untold backcloth phylum

varied gin machetes
                crying weekdays

crowded foreground clashing
break-in monotones fashioned

     detergent fat
     garners medication liners

pure from seminal additions
rooster passageways limber
fingerprint indiscretions cast 
while breaking the frozen whirlpool threshold


Learning an Old Lesson

wilderness reports weather
unknown sightings whenever
a distant land turned interior
or feral as the nightwatch 
glows emphatic passage rites 
inured to sweat or leaving dawn
before the red comes slowly
rising on a breath entanglement
conundrum flurries while the tempo 
watches arrivals time departure frenzies
leathered expressions darken satchels
pages to game good vandal rages
played inferior composition reams
dazzling on paper not in praxis
left unkept as theorem polish
righting on the water's dredged side
no interest current past shallow
burning mindless passion churned
visceral ambitions turned missionary
as pure position screwed to assure
hologrammatical fashion retorts
whenever inversion strike urges 
righting the ballast tipped its aside
a comic release to unmentioned
particle vipers lack molting swagger
revelations blind the light with
a nightly via negativa fantasia
sex endowed the power rack smelting
beyond the irons of Sumer West
a geography of ore short on folklore
derided the later stages of its demise
their legends go awry in the fielding
awards ceremonial rioting passage
fluent amber succulence grown
limber dancing the darkened light
alluvial rapture streams fork twice
against the organ's wind shriek
cold against the spring's lurid rumor
the runners passed as ammunition
among the border stories crossing
truths when fiction meets the line
milking paradise of metaphor mix
and the circular charm amenities
gathered to shore the sorrow fixates
a link of shame to past inhabitants
where the fueling imprecation flights
churned mustard in filial rumination
left festering dosage learning swerves
direction to equal optic severance
a play whose diction refines meaning
on stilts or bearing up weather candy
while dilettante refusal meat centers
opprobrium returns on a level sled
worn shedding a learning experiment
worth forgetting with irreverent details


Deadening Repetition

Certainly 
the sides of music 
happened quickly 

when the news 
reached residing purposes
and held fast, 

boasting the most 
magnificent city atmosphere.

To allow disclaimers 
passed over frantic coatsleeve 
orders. As loud

as allegro live, 
roared the mark on their proper 
shape,

and hurried away, 
regurgitation inquest coming.


Off the Clock

time hands
bloodless as pineal rapture
cling

  to 
  breathing a carapace
  presence scratching
  itself

         a modular climb 
         stairing the well
         through a curve

ending at its level facing

*

no clarity 
        to moss infection
                                    filtered down 
the
    gumshare       gave     time
     animus to   spread
    atrium clocks

               hammered
 deluxe
echo chimes
or canned luxury atoms
no expiration date
     slated

     to crest
     against a tithing shore

poem || John Pursch

A Juror’s Lonely Lunch Hour

Slow clock linearity adjusts itself with my hands, peeking at futuristic platforms of shoestring roots and subterranean sewing kits, photographed by cyclists on millstone duty clique elopement circuits of an interminably vivacious spinal éclair.

Salivation ceases to impress a logo, frothing at kissed kernels, crossing sidearm fallacies in portfolios of winter car alarms, clanged to wacky beckonings of fecund basement publicans, playing browned gals into nine tight fetters, tied to vapid jacks of shyly kneading trademark swirls in Suleiman’s vitiated slugging gasket.

Pinochle plays on backseat bumps of bucolic roadsters, simpering about wide and misty tergiversation, flipping consonants in continental freakout blasts of sonic assonance gone to didgeridoo and dial-up daylight slavery quotients, hovering into quotidian festivities known only in the most redundantly escutcheoned fakery’s festooned calumny.

Softening to adulterated whimsy, vertices inject a barometric expression of coughed elation at quarterly intervals, pleasing standoffish marigolds with shades of bismuth, freckling a juror’s lonely lunch hour.

text || Marco Giovenale

pagan landscape
 
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Monday, February 15, 2016

pome || billy bob beamer


POME hapdapybydarthida


1..mo
       o sem. I nar-t
   . alsel   .  (room open

  ka
 

2-kes te clod.  se
grins.
         nigh.thesneezeis
rozess./ O 
.kes. 

an kl
 

3,e
est
t                e
manuther.    pl uthen. el ote.
rept.almscriwl state nux vomvoy n. exe.
   cu    ant c amp      bl

.moo

poem || Lawrence Upton

MIME #12
Mimes
Polyvocal – see performance note
[Mime a]
overwhelming strength of aspiration
apocalyptic, cannibalistic,
sequence, rapidly disintegrating, awareness

[Mime b]
spontaneity stuck in the past
explorations of counterpoint without compassion

[Mime c]
a sunlit garden in a natural world;
characterised shrewdly and delivered;
receiving widespread systematised bombardment;
apparent emissions, admissions;
disease detected;
level of alarm crushing;
war against the lost and stolen,
outlining contours in surrounding;
securing mood music and general application

[Mime d]
response to surveillance allowing knowledge
to spread defects moving towards benefit
struck by an immoral state

[Mime e]
sun breaks through after a wintry night:
a dull morning with brisk wind;
underlying stone an impression of brightness

Performance note
The subtitles - “Mime a, b, c, c, e” are reference labels and are not uttered; there should just be a long pause between each piece, the five read as one piece.  
The poem is polyvocal, but freely: there are no written parts. It is suggested that there is a 'primary' performer, a leader who starts each mime with other contributors following on, preferably with the primary performer at higher volume than the others. The primary performer will read all the text [but not the labels!].
There may be a different primary performer for each of the five mimes.
The emboldened text might be left for the primary performer(s) alone or for them to complete before contributors follow, i.e. the contributors would read after a delay the length of which is the time it takes the primary performer to read their text. NB Text has been emboldened just for this purpose and that formatting has no other significance if it is not followed in this way.
Contributors may select some or all of the text to read – different contributors may select different text to the others and spread out physically in whatever space is available.