Thievery before an opaque misapprehension by Joshua Martin

 

dOwN changed a lOAf

       : condensed acne evaluation :

                 (of splendor, dripping,           [stevedore play^ing_ed

                   malfunctioning, barely              hide-and-go-seek,

                   audible in fiery auto-              vanishing bulbous

                   matic thistles) =>                             bar^stools

   dAnCe                                                         w/o thought=

          rapid cornea stability                                            ful

,         AT EASE / AT REVERSE / /           meandering forks]

. . . . .

cosmetic serial maladjustment              /                :                     /

fuming like a sprained ankle                         \                    \

rattling against stone age sewage  

systems arbitrarily dispensed                   :     , , , , ,

                         : RaGe (for?

                                        against?

                                        Both?) =>

          all between

          sullen nausea, COASTING            >sTeAdT As A RoCk^ing

=UN=                                                             shovel piercing

   EVENT=FUL                                             amorous knee^caps

                          dispositions of a                 , as wobbly as shut-in    

                          herded train^line =>             denominators< 

      sub=

      ATOMIC suspenders

      breathing lifeless warmth                 | ,  !  |  , => => => => =>

      into invisible leaping super^novas 

                      / [dRaFt, personified

                          ROMAN endeavors                (shadow,

                          coordinating gathering             shaded &

                          funereal wavelengths] \                  foaming

=> BeaMs eNcRuSt rIveRs                                         at the MoUtH)

       oF bAwDy whir^POOLS <= , , , , ,

                                revolt^ing_ed  

                                cyber^security     

                                BLACKHOLE

                                               [. . . . . . . . . .

 

Marzipan Divination Folly by Mark DuCharme

  for Joshua Martin

The crystallographer zeroed in on a treatise of snores

It was stuffy as a hummingbird’s livingroom

Oilcloth blowouts in chanticleer misery

An ancient way of telling flowers from bells

Wilted cargo, jaded vanity

Who put the lop in lopsided?

I’ve dug myself out of worse graves

The other way lies psoriasis

Loosen up now, down a pituitary bargain

The read road is often gone

Find a signal you could aim at vanishing

Threads won’t be threads in the harbor anymore

A case of hard, serpentine housing

Down whatever lawn you care to snore

Where spears an igloo of lancet doubling

Out the mirror, killing time

my own private Jonestown - Donovan Reyes

Dear GOD Do We Love ‘r Proddutalaccio by Jim Meirose

 

Paid Promotional Message by Jim Meirose

 

This is a paid promotional message (we couldn’t weasel out of it as it is an artifact of an early-on contractual agreement made prior to having ¹(NO) (Can you imagine where this project would be now, if the slick-shine pulling the wool down on whatever child signed this, had just a pulled back their drapes just inch more to the sun sharper?)  here it is:        ¹a brain.

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             Available in many   Apply in the serious colors

 including “green”  moonlight      If not sooner      Tomorrow

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3 visuals by Sheila Murphy

 

 

Two prose pieces by Sheila Murphy