Rob Gourley

Jim Leftwich

wordladders

1.

somewhat shy to be

overnight low Tennessee

may ink probability

knot-hiovering adrenalin

into the deformation

zone, moiving mostly

Saturday maybe, from

Kentucky to moderate-coal

Virginia. 8-senior

soapmess, any day the

causes can accumulate

into literature.

2.

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shoe.

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write experienced farmers,

observer and matter,

strong cinnamon Chinese.

5.

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6.

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government/movement

on his own he turtles

like the wordladders lower rungs.

7.

somewhat documentation shy to be

overnight low rehearsal Tennessee

may ink probability indisciplined

knot-hiovering chalkboards adrenaline

into refrigerator the deformation

zone, breakfast moiving mostly

Saturday maybe, twicecookedmeat from

Kentucky to moderate-illuminations coal

Virginia. 8-version senior

soapmess, any conjunctions day the

astral asterisk, causes can accumulate

into literature direct dishwasher.

Joel Chace

Mark Sargent

NATE’S MUG HUNG

He came in a long tube

I picked up at the PO and took

immediately to my frame guy.

He stretched it snug

and up he went.

He’s on the wall behind me

looming, bigger than fucking life

and looming, looking over me

right shoulder with what might

have been a blur of sneer but was

smudged into bafflement and sad,

hurt, wary as though cornered.

How did it happen?

What got my ass to this chair in nowhere

being rendered into oil?

It could have been Reno

or some buggered LA suburb

but either way it wasn’t

far enough from New York.

Call them episodes, ‘cause it’s a series,

those fucking crimson spews,

gift transfusions from the common vein

and another guy in a lab coat

shaking his head and you know

all your lines in this scene

and play it sincere, subtle

with a gallows humor lean.

Well, so far, fatal bullets dodged

but he’s winged,

goes by Liverfool now,

has trouble selling his sass,

waiting, as he is,

for a liver on the rocks,

for some poor fucker who matches

to die, so they can medi-vac that organ 

to the hospital,

shove it in him

and see if it takes.

What will Nate whisper when my night

feels like a shrunken shirt,

voices tell me to break it all apart,

and I know that’s shit advice

but listen anyway, what will you say, Nate?

I suggest you scorn my suffering

as not enough, not enough,  point

to your scars, the deep shit,

paint your pain broadly,

bleed right off that canvas

the fluids of fate and choice.

Hey, wuz you deciding ever

or did you let your monkey choose?

It is always the worst of times

when you’re killing time

in the hard scrublands of organ failure,

not a kiosk in sight

and you’re floating

in a most peculiar way

and what was common place

is hard to find today.

And the best, consider those

transfusions of joy, those bungee falls

each plunge weakening the strand

the fiber the weave the setup:

a Rasta and a trust fund twit

enter a sperm bank clinic…

a giraffe dressed like a gangsta

and a sumo in a tutu are thrown

from a plane…

Make in the limit of now,

snap of it—traction, bounce—

hey, that cat’s still moving,

claws extended, fur electric,

that ain’t no bounce,

that fucker’s leaping.

It is a leap year.

Get some air

between you and earth.

Jump, muthafucka, jump

right over my shoulder

and on to the page.

John M. Bennett

http://www.nakedsunfish.com/SunFish_090/blank/Blank.htm#

Jim Leftwich

                                                                                                                                               

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Roberto Ncar