epidermis

maria damon





Ant-whip at Antwerp, go go go!, for example, she wears a 92B
whatever that means
tts and statistics mediate yr lusty B, de la...
Hymn of Him, XLarge but rusty in the dusty nonce and nancy of YES!!!
dusting talc as they talk, accursed and accused of course
the eyes water-veiled, passage to an onda-world
falling upward over waves to the moon, a bruminous haze
no encores in sight, but a static ego-egg winking  upside down
Then you err, tiny, tortured by swirls and swept moonwards dead
dewspeck...


--------


In the agora, sweet agora
I met my phobic analog,
J. Noseworthy, Jr., the seventh sun.
No nun he, o ho! Je
est un jeunesse jaune, rien
d'autre, (h)auteur
jittery as a swoon in Skopje
my be-with-me boy stammers
I-I-I whispers ("my little jewesssssss
in slippers") wobbling swept sideways


--------


Tori's libido is nothing compared to uselessness
Cobra'd agents gaunt and spittle-flickering
Live alive O! My laurel's arresting
needy and heedless or is that headless for displaysia's
Esquire subscription, woe betide Ra and his
Curbed cur, curt and cute of the reminiscence and
Remittance, Phew! Adore the odor, not the odeuse,
the Gnoeisis of EKG wannabe healers heavenward
O take the A train...please, look this way, streetmuncher



--------


At repose, imp/possibly dark-eyed pools unleashed
(and the dog-collar, a nice touch) sans dollar signs
Rudeboy avant-la-lettre O
Tentative movements in flak-jacket imperium, thunder-urged
on the bottom rung
a sideways kissing-face linked to desiderata
Holy daze of scarified rib-slash, riddled with zeroes,
Crystal cesspool archaeology
our Anglo-Saxon "heritage" sites "'ey WOT?!"
Stun us in pylon sideways verses, bodily
lunacy verse-coaxing  coquette...

bob brueckL



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nic sum res ros hed bos niche

ack cha nee sores che you moo

oso asm arc sor urn smoocha

chasm nis som ich ose ish

nestne stnest nes tnest



Poem (pert lapping fronds of purple filth)


pert lapping fronds of purple filth,
(motor mouth prophylactic)
foolscap's socket disc, gentian scanner glint,
sonar burr, tomfoolery, underwater bunk
& bubble stripes honing their pranks, 

tobacco snuff, nickels, scotch tape, woodshed mold,
brittle light seepages shrieking in the metallic surf,
carbon glans wafer of pre-dawn light in the attic,
nervy amber cache of sheer stinky sweat
screeching in the bare rearend of Tuesday)

glowworm's tan twig map's catnap, scar brine escalator,
(tissue of star-stream's bullet chrome wimpled-rod foiled)

liquid flesh-image torn, mist's pink smoke a cobra avalanche --
shrill buttons on the poet's breast, lips, nuts, skin,
uterus, empty cock, tummy, bolts of spicy brown mustard;

Night hives humped thru a bone feebly tumble,
the uncharged bobbing of moistly quiet organs' eons'
fiendish morning fusions collapsing in doubt,
snipping off midnight's comet tail stutter --

fluorescent orifice blood on the window-pane's brains
where the sanctity of my hung head sneers,
eclair-greased redness of beeswax petals' pain, 
silly blonde body of unutterable scarcities
engulfing my mercury mudhut...

anywho...the lukewarm crapper sludge-beeper sounds,
tin pea-brain's melancholia clout
a slippery wet-dream sandwich of steep moth wings
and melons that molten the buzz of mucilage,
circuit-breakers opening pieces of peeling pipes
that bug nobody's numb pimple duodenum,
tailfin tubes choking off bodices of underarm hair,
ass-wipe's male whorehouse pencil eraser chewed off,
a beaker of filched eye-hole fur --

slots' tones'
tuba sewage

a galloping sponge of prismacolored vials and corny pills --

headlights gripe
about the vellocipede's turret tunnel
where rheostat's flattery swallows plastacine ladder knots,
O rayon twill tongue.



Poem (backhoe hole sparks)


backhoe hole sparks, the lard midriff sags --

night leaf
rips

(chop-chop)

the stout gopher pith,
the sassy cone hour,
loops' rook, mine,
unless mint hemp
nips the vaseline snowfence,
the ham dome dives
into the acrylic moan enamel, into
noun veins' balustrade, the pent-up

rainy hatch purr
kneecaps the tine,

the pallbearer's culled prune tome,

odd hocker quash, the tilting trifle --

air a slight crust lost in absolving brass wires,
hedges' glancing under the sog --

white rust
toppling
black gold's

beady wren eyes, none sown
into the coiled pose,
towboat pippin dredging
powder puff popsicles --

under the revved-up blend,

patches smack & spit the clutch bout out

peeping along the lumpy gestures,
the emitter's forefinger scolding the coral nates,
inarticulate cow sounds abruptly crenulating
the candied keys' grips, asp lapses,
whist tines' impression of the slush cuss,
the bobblehead's skewed soundings

grasped as
a granular
meal-ticket

so
wrist slats
swell

and bent
nose hairs
fire-up --

so smote me:

January wrist lumps,
drubble jeers' iron mattress bell
or grease, 

a stiff "if" coalescing & possessing
the rift overlapping the riff --

drainage of staples
or oil
brown-bagging it
as inverted April cums unevenly,
inadvertently mounting
the gaberdine gasoline

angela genusa



Lower My Billsss!


We
The Snake URL Salesmen
of the
Western Whoreld
willingly
sold ourselves
a bill of
AS SEEN ON TV
gods.

QVC-bracelet
yourself
for the
fall of the
everydaylowpriced
penispump
dollar emporium.

Brother,
can you
sparerib
a duodenum?

And when the
umbilical cord
gets pulled
right in the
middle of
American Idol,

Hollar,
"Wait!
I didn't
have time
to click on
a state to
lower my
mortgage
rate!"

Pulchrum
spargitur
hic Chaos!



Finnegans Spring Cleaning


Sss! The season of snakes is upon us!
Siamese twins swallow steak-knifed
swordfish. Upskirt cameras snap
Venus-razored flytraps in the midst
of a carnivorous lawn of escalators,
promising vicarious nothings, lonely
lashings and passive whippings.
Hear the hissing of ghastly cotillions,
the carnivalesque creaking of mowers
and leaf blowers. See the summery
tessellations whirl for the same
trichtotillomaniacal slaphappy
customers. Bastions of caterpillars
thwack and thrust along see-through
leaves. She shovels shit with dollar-
store trowels, by the squamous seashore,
planting tubular bulbs. Two anexoric
nurses mask a freakish placenta.
Boaed constrictions spit wormish
jism, leaving sour messes in the mouse.
A two-fisted bearded cheapskate with
a migraine slurs libational confessions,
canvasses tassels all evening.
What a sneaky means to unfold visions
of a squeamish, primitive possessiveness!



Hurricane Season Hoodoo Spell


pron. hooh dooh. immersion gumbo.
proposes the countergame of

NONSENSE AS SALVATION
10 Strangers 11 Frying Pan Eyes

i rue my ringtone. give a lesson
in loved one's body. santeria

dusty old nudist magazines
HOLLERIN BEBOP GHOSTS

while snow is falling on the baby bush
tricked out with lights. dunk her

or drown her. she pop right back up.
a bathing spell to attract love

one hundred and one talismans
but what i should do is call on 101 haints

president bush received a
While You Wre Out message

yup hoodoo just off the boat from Haiti
an insider's guide to surviving the next disaster.

rearrange your children's letter magnets
to spell out refrigerator incantations

Victims of Chance. LET MY PEOPLE GO.
Follow the Money, Trailer Children.

this story isn't about an act of god.
it took five days to get water to the Superdome

the secret to cooking lobsters is not to murder them.
give them a nice. slow. respectable way out.



Cinderella's Recursive Fallopian Tube Code



par ies gonades embryon-. naires dose (100 X 10") in the ute-. rine cornua chi I d r en
of Mr. and Mrs. II. goldenslipper Easter Egg Hunt 1,1-DCE. No (Sand Castle) repro-
ductive hyp::rtext framework a.u. for Ar net positive charge of the H–Rg fragment
Moths' £300 Lust. Caution. ¿Consumes o te consumen? ¿y? after 12-h iv GH infusion
"R( .... Iteration)" → error. K_f = e^ Aruba Jute Rug _LYNCH _ Fading into _ LYNCH
Single crystals of Pr(PO3)3 The R in RSS1.0
(Bass Clef) L.45, £4.95.
a 10-cm cube DOT test
Thx-o-plop Ha! K is not connected to you in Yahoo! 360°
TUNGSTEN E HARD CASE TUR: TD Quincy Peaches 0 fumble return

jim leftwich & jukka-pekka kervinen



from circulations


dumfound, paramount rub sulfurous club soda subsist bozo entourage
cubism courtesan bossy monstrous scouting bob couplet, capacious
labored vexatious rouge shipboard jounce credulous grouchy turbojet
ambitious turbojet, espouse gouty religious bulbous seditious abbot
tenuously housing stubbly boo laborious dour ambitious astound borough
scuba stubborn mousy tortuous yourself tour touch mass noun scout,
dough murderous, mouthful source nabob arousal boozer, bounteous bog
credulous furious monstrous toughen, bountiful, bottom scouting
outfox, outdo, dubiously clubfoot oxbow, harbor bounds, verbose
outdated boogie credulous routinely outre, bow tie, igneous robot
notorious outfield borough housing, borax cancerous journal, scuba,
bomber, colour, capacious gourd, firebomb, detour bounteous, proboscis
lubricate, outbound you south bobby pin glamour toughen yourself,
announcer boastful, lousy bouffant our verbose mouthful cough
cancerous, velour, doghouse bossy boulevard bow


proposal, caper, topmost, appraiser, petal apparatus isotope jeopardy,
dopey yuppie permanent, boct eriol, Eden olly omo rolly scrob pricing
policy for mistry sy it hits a stain Technology persuade grope, caper
frappe, closeout envelop kidnaper, top swop unopposed opening
apparatus hozel nut serial Technology hord and boron powder iol
managers iol photos bidding meol bread ripper, lop pepper dapper
appealing dispenser poppa blooper chiropody troops, beekeeper operatic
broin fewer children holf, lisle veol coto piles lysis which
plasticity, hosh gool where fish are drop rope crepe hippie unhappy,
coupe strop pest persuade type aspen limpet bagpipes shipper
plasticity, feo decent fru Traditional deacon hosn't osp holt
supporters try Technologies bumin frappe peddle appealing, apposite,
pertinent petiole, depend, preoccupy appoint dapper, hops booklet
sholl chorus sy Discuss jointly loss Technologies s strange camp cold
oil ron honk impeach troops perplex copy lop penal aspen applejack
zeppelin reappear choppy rape ripe speed shouting old modules sold
tule or chord soli vote playboys enervated it passing Technologies fru
suspect populist unhappy octopus stupefy envelop nope approve
poppycock apparel tempera ripe me Traditional technologies oil fights
loy hond, 8th rotation older brother immediately, horde bishop strop
petticoat parapet, populism steppe, sloop gorgeous, pest whopping
optimal jeopardy fly boub Le hospital or chord pea oil and the
protection of the valley of death foil, The enemy pest tropic
petticoat, supper pewter, bishop apparatus pertinent pecuniary penny,
pester pee whopping appraiser, pertinent stipple appealing pensively
taupe, tipper pope bagpipes houl pleot where it does not exist, and
neither one thotch, omo rolly orb Le pluro plots


proposal, caper, topmost, appraiser, petal apparatus isotope jeopardy,
dopey yuppie permanent, persuade grope, caper frappe, closeout envelop
kidnaper, top swop unopposed opening apparatus ripper, lop pepper
dapper appealing dispenser poppa blooper chiropody troops, beekeeper
operatic drop rope crepe hippie unhappy, coupe strop pest persuade
type aspen limpet bagpipes shipper frappe peddle appealing, apposite,
pertinent petiole, depend, preoccupy appoint dapper, hops impeach
troops perplex copy lop penal aspen applejack zeppelin reappear choppy
rape ripe speed suspect populist unhappy octopus stupefy envelop nope
approve poppycock apparel tempera ripe bishop strop petticoat parapet,
populism steppe, sloop gorgeous, pest whopping optimal jeopardy pest
tropic petticoat, supper pewter, bishop apparatus pertinent pecuniary
penny, pester pee whopping appraiser, pertinent stipple appealing
pensively taupe, tipper pope bagpipes


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hits a stain Technology hozel nut serial Technology hord and boron
powder iol managers iol photos bidding meol bread broin fewer children
holf, lisle veol coto piles lysis which plasticity, hosh gool where
fish are plasticity, feo decent fru Traditional deacon hosn't osp holt
supporters try Technologies bumin booklet sholl chorus sy Discuss
jointly loss Technologies s strange camp cold oil ron honk shouting
old modules sold tule or chord soli vote playboys enervated it passing
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rotation older brother immediately, horde fly boub Le hospital or
chord pea oil and the protection of the valley of death foil, The
enemy houl pleot where it does not exist, and neither one thotch, omo
rolly orb Le pluro plots dia claims abuse darkness it can accommodate
tea coil pea soil illegal gold pile bubbles tree Sakura chose oats
shock Fighting Back s swine used for food foot frame houl foil, l hero
dry oil well or various articles groin plu times of the city s swine
ruins fell horn full ROOF pholt blanket mole hods holl mork uwilivati
people from its obligations when he senile broin less tipple hordly
and hospitals and hish loin fill unle osh which wraps, gimlet me and
oppeo um um decent verb Network portfoilo Reynolt ral, scrob poorly
and horizontal Home testimony feol very roin following unhor med ads
call clearing only noble months droplets euco lypti Le likes Pole,
where motorcycles protection when temptation cut er one area I call
riddles, in the sweet temptation to say kind words

thomas lowe taylor



clear song


entry portal a newer world's order arrived
within chants the plural mold affirmed at
houses flung then stirred spoon in hand is
the tale of the day's beginning in the heart

air's flood from lung to sun the wheel acts
a fortunate segment alive and well inside a
terminal strain seething along in bumps and
grinds of light emanating from inside lines

where the detail forms along measured tact
the personal is set free to roam the skies and
hold the tempo down for other days to seem
the land at strike and gong the latent forces



dispensation notwishstanding


your doubt has been bundled into hedged
collapse of destiny's trillions removed from
circulation by empty promises and risked
collateral on the time of notions to foreclose

your spirit found insupportable by masked
soldiers on the porch without dignity attached
no longer to real opportunity but closed door
hedge found empty in the morning's locker

by foodstuff furniture removed piled by the
doorway your apartment razed for non removal
from the saints of pleasure and domain from
the dark cadillac humvees gathering at the rim



every moment


I go  inside to see what's there, a brightly lighted
place of ordered landscapes colorful and precise in
the music also filling everything as if a motion
in the air a hum of thumps and whistles and deep
tones of function and rhyme fill me with my self

I lean across a fence to see into the deeper realms
of my body's functioning permissions to be alive
with excitement and balance from all the centers
where love resides at the heart's center a bright

sign flourishes out into the richly flavored vista
I'm given to see in this moment of entry into a
realm I'd always thought private and mysterious
now I see I'm welcome here and want to stay alive



healing friends


they arrive in droves of magnificent chariots alive
with the fire of life itself singing their songs of love
and healing while I drift upwards into the lighted air
floating on the cushions themselves as they arise &

cling as winds blowing from their various distances
in harmony with the noises from the heart beating
bumpety bump along the freight rail holdings from
day to day repeating in the solemnity of what passes

for the new day arriving inside time with your name
on the face of love to the final fusion taking place in
your own being as the seeker and the beloved become
one in each other climbing aside into the lighted sphere



job description


zen sufi dada tantra-holic mysto macho for
backpacking adventure through seven asian
peninsulas islands arpeggios and synapses
in conjunction writing newsletters to friends

at seven thousand feet no centipedes allowed
to further alien enterprises at dissolute premises
no election fervor year-long fevers forever unit
the lesser daze formulates life time drugs again

yet the hallow persists inside time's dimensions
from the personal into the spiritual allowing for
detours permissions doubts and potential hang-ups
to elaborate the scope of the mission also forward 



landscape one


blank in the forest even darkness absent
a vertical blind necessity without direction
movement aimless and silent preparation for
circular paths in maze-like deconstruction

no luck with windows which see out on flat
empty blank, 'it is written' addendum clarity
no clue either, may be voices nearby a hum
the character of a standoff reminds one again

these lands occupied or not by forces at play
in the mind of time as has 'no return' marked
illegible scrawl upside down so strangers not
permit what others are there now but us them



landscape two


twelve mile slip of sand unbroken no rocks
no estuary, rivulet or pile seaweed, empty of
people, occasional car with lights in the fog
empty houses usually few signs of life here

holidays people fill the streets make 'the wave'
surf breaks low rollers around small surf birds
occasional pelican or dead seal or big tree root
wood gleaners with chainsaw and pickup truck

in exile. days you could slice the boredom thick
thoughts run parallel to the coast, occasional doubts
fill your being then relapse to sunsets and slow signs
flags on the foredune to locate the way back home

peter ganick


from soft text


containment with quixotic similarity, each [therefore bluely the
adroit in special festival] something frozen for facing the experience
willingly, template in restructure, error [pave the ride]. collapse to
reduce elation, nor existential that infanta, loquacious inventory,
even logorrhetic insults forming where possible in oleander wine-sacks
depend more thinking exceeding with particulate [sophistic imbalance,
the shapeshifter in provocation to empty out a suddenness] near whose
copious flange the rep from salute intentionally cripples a
dermatological vainglory. public that it remunerates involuntary
erasures. nothing each...

near whose depilated cartilage imminently despotic values triplicate,
[bureaucracy], telling a symmetry to convolute is bland and trial
lawyer. [cold punishment, will to pave, preen the trammel fomented in
gringo.] periodicity shaves a deigned immodesty, prove to impoverish,
names out of called on-time persuasion, fest from avows persnickety
valorization of prana. which heartens otherness willows of the hidden
school and tangibility.

near whose improvident [therefore calloused as penury, also
slaughtered...] named from ascending pardons, the emotional closure
telling a precision to be insulated in of which no silence traps,
sought in impression clobbered. [real tones thinking from,] cling to
pertain siphoned, together in of as which the double shift [reproves
bell sounds, damage(d)(s) ears intemperately]. crone to dapple outward
eluctability from scrutinize deft opacity. nil blink to emote scared
[gasp], deepened fare to improve tolerant impressions, existent extant
reliquary forced through esplanade, dowse ocular far-reaching kindness
when applicable. test mouth  reinvents parasitic nomenclature, void
cartouche moon-song in pardon for rage to parse. when is iterative,
voracious as particulate buy-out, climbs temp [holding pavement under
armistice of brooch lesson there fluid], evidentially the properly
crowned to breathe issue formatless in as merging, croaks some glimmer
clod in of pardoned meaning from music.

gleans topiary skeleton, widened faces only the sides to prevail.
[inquiry where protean, emotion werewolf tolerant of schismatic,
threat if worldly pastiche, enumerated there being held responsive,
that wishes flame, originary to blemish with reapportionment one
caporal at rime of taproot.] fallacious that matrixes the familiar,
pardons to bleary-eyes a level of ivory palisade. meaning clouded. how
[importing caliphates of demeanor with traduction allured], that being
in sequence for gainsaid permanence. nimble to ask preventing an
imposing torsion, loquaciously pertinent for gabbed relinquishing.

provider's reaction apparently neat of apprehension to [which salvos
the impious, and alacrity solved themes] document a situation from,
each name-form crisis, imperiled fantasy in situ bloss for romance.
temporary that cohere(s)(d), [themselves for more nearness samples
oblique ascent too miraculous endeavor], real-time affidavit prevents
some a priori resonance, breathless, improves wide mannerist, graffiti
on skull, skeleton.




jeff harrison



The Pasha's Lament For His Tiger


whether warm or growing to wave warmth aside,
beast, you'll ever

prove golden, beast,
whether waking to "garlanded" or waking to "spectral"



Hereafter Do Away With Soft Our Dreadful Fills


bread is artificial, beef natural - unless bread tumbles
from the heavens into hands aloft held by fashioned meat,
then bread's as soon a harp in the hand of that meat- & hair-
sprinkled gentleman, Chimaeras Verser, by night sky his
eye can spot only giants whom he believes are hospitable
to such intonations as "what down your throats pour once
fluttered, or crawled" or "consult the blood, Wished Alikes!",
else beneath that night sky he'd play, amidst Towers (Yeats,
Crane, &c), filthy music ("Were My Head Perched 'Pon A Lighter
Neck My Mouth, Virginia, Could Drop Bread From Far Above
Into My Hands And Yours, Inscription Whom The Ages Storm")



Versers, & The Fire They Follow


an unutt'VERSE'rable show'VERSE'r next will perhaps suit some other "alas"
your crackles descend to their due (d - u - e) goal (i.e., Ms. Virginia)
(let me drop / to this line -- i.e., Ms. Virginia, she'VERSE's neighb'VERSE'ring
human imagines ere now ill to modulation) to harp their own cares / will you,
Virginia, deed a length of yourself to the black'VERSE'ning I'VERSE'll verse the most?



(remembrance shall a seaweed effort match)


shipwreck left here to shipwreck, yet
farthest delicate water's rescued like twilight!
like twilight rescued from afternoon praise! ...
(sotto voce): it does merit my astonishment song.

sea
floated upon
sleep, so
sleep drowned
when sleep turned around

NOTE. the apostrophe separating the "s" from the "r"
in "water's" is, as you've maybe guessed, a spacious pause,
causing the "s" to hiss like twilight rescued from afternoon praise

(the pause revisits, albeit briefly, the prow-Virginia's limitless hush)



Their Letters Change Also


the loups-garous. they.
they go astray
they linger linger
linger on the road the letters
see more wood and
look at more animals
alas that Hollywood
did not call this year, not nice
but nice & necessary are not
what is lingering, the
loups-garous. they. go, still, astray





Edited Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
All works copyright by authors


Kitee, Finland, 2008