Tuesday, January 28, 2014

VENEREAL KITTENS REMEMBERED

Matina Stamatakis recently wrote to tell me that her literary magazine, VENEREAL KITTENS, has closed its doors. The news saddens me because VENEREAL KITTENS published a lot of my poetry in a literary setting surrounded by first-rate poets between 2007 and 2012. I'm sorry to see the magazine end its run, but I enjoyed it while it lasted, and am sure that Matina Stamatakis will be publishing her own world-class poetry in other magazines as she moves forward. Here's a backward look at, and an appreciation of, the work I submitted to VENEREAL KITTENS, most of which found a home there.



Turning Radiant



a marginal tangent breaker allowed
cortical paradigm cassocks designed
to fit button marvels in miracle plays
that delayed chronometric largesse
as mere clockwork fit to be timed
where their meridians rule energy
buffets endless consumption blocks
concrete as any abstract notion vowed
infinity an egg-timer turned sideways
pursuing a lateral vision of ascendance
where beaches replace the sand lost
to hurricane wenches in virtue dives
and roadhouse fill-ins venture to serve
unverified swill to residual truth serpents
revising conjunction laws where passed
particles dramatize the tints of grammar
as tilted toward pinball memories ping
the resurgent avatar headings filtered
presentiment hearings through frost
before chemical thread merchants
spread their meretricious logic vents
over the commotion bound to lure
the sensible entry to varicose sleep
takes the will to climb banners away
from prepositions turned distantly in
or out of for if ever meant bitterly
detritus envy would deaden recipes
where trays never clattered their prey 
to nuisance headings for homage 
replay deferred adolescent climax
ventures grow silt or sliding manners
exchange crudities in a crosswind
blown southerly for vixen trailers
derailed their other tactical delays
starch meters collecting revenge 
on errant dry cleaner declaimers
seeking to avenge true necessity
before its early tablets aroused
missed fission in the fishing hole
where gasping nuclear gargles cling
to every last shred of their half-life



Prophecies on Winter Wind



bring inexplicable ice
to jagged shards where temples fell

leaving human foliage 
an inextricable autumn
to celebrate the ruins

with acts of sedentary rumination

*

candle burners at every wick
and corner seeking dry dock

the hard chill tells no tale of nuance

solitary accusers cling
to predictable gyrations
over a moment's curse

no ragged bell tower clangs

*

extricable cards deck jokers
hanging too near the local outskirts
a sickening ploy to sell fever

arable as breath
of the subcutaneous monks
turning visible 

on a future spoken present








One Over



compendium sharks
slow to trace their concealment

place the armada
in garlic stricture cells
a laser implanting

razor-breath stark repellent

*

taxonomy an equal 
subdivision once removed
from the bait lift

bailed the traffic 
jamming the sequestered 
nutrient fillers

through the gourded pipelines
staking a feigned amenity crisis

*
the calabash left 
darkness unfolded for the ancient 

imperative 
a nameless sequence
the stupor stirs

 a sturdy bludgeon turns captive




Folked Away



pixillated dulcimer plangent
vision skewed across the flay
cushions bent strings filing
folk ways past the core frayed
loose amenity circles springing
wherever ventilation imbued
the play circles with day care
dances loose to the footer
at a distance calling media
names under muffled breath
incursion slants a prophetic lip
in service to unborn cliches
molding in trays left underfoot
that varnish the weary score
an elastic solstice backlit with
butter incarnation tracing roots
back to more pabulum treaties
than the far corps can dominate
or delay circumstantial emission
data sent crosswalk skittering
under a fledgling appellation
spent on frozen carnage deals
played according to the hand
felt feathering another’s palm
under threat of sheep loam
or cattle prancing left to foot
the fear of nomenclature serum
fretting their vertebral colon
strung down the slipping capos
keyed to message thematically 
induced parasol rub treatment
personified as dual nonentity
truculent as any tired driver
canceling a remote presence
at sessions chording tribunals
parked across octave divider
transits pitched to retelling
gourded recriminator feats
stuffed for the piƱata transfer
coming down the middle bend
with a load not taken to frost
or ventilation furies at midnight
aching under envy’s bitter heat
the moribund investment circuits
hoarding magma under crust
a presence turned warning loop
where skies fork pied dividends
to serpent guides on metric delay
before casting thousands ashore
where their washing scrubbed 
cleanser lyrics to dynamo fluid
camped under rarefied surname
headers affixed to stable entry
however deadening the flats
that sharpen the flavor maid
fallen rounds of steerage earn
a circular flume its descent
before dampened registers
longing for unbidden glamour
teams announce rostrum cling
banners gliding to help pastiche
repel enabled surcharge vendors

bent on spooning clipped physics
cardboard to dysfunctional lips
disrespectfully pursed a cursor
saved from dashboard influenza
drifting a rearview blind-side
categorically unclassified flash
finding vertical hangar slits
before normal throttles accrue
stately carnival buttocks shard
resume displacements cling
refurbished memory tantrums
shingle the atrium harness
before the shrill tonsil flute
splits the pitch of catgut fillet 
hybrid tuning the fork to a
pitch the tangent can circle
before the moribund cattle
enter cursing wagons circled
against the feathered charge
regaling the rushing window
before the oncoming panes 
shatter the canvas of legend
running a lengthy slide note
vents a wholesome viewing 
scene as cunning as its bend



Fudging the Bottom Line



binding straw
reared sentence bite
in color

fourth paleness frightened

     *

air disappeared 
until morning announced 
the time ago 

perturbed the public cyclone

    *

fanlight complete
hill pigments exceeded
fall persistence

exchanged 
the margins clasping form



Turning Dark Again



orbital placebo sky
trimmed nightly as an aftermath

conjunction detrimental
where legends of past demands
spring their vernal sequins

noxious catacombs leak splendor

gardens ventilate 
when creaking roofs intone
their telepathic replay

to transmit 
a slow decay as path and pace



Direction Restored



the new portcullis necrophilia dagger
a courtly debacle passing as cool
releases the feel of a lowly plectrum
to ganders unstrung from barking
auto plasma stickers horn refulgent
as all-day shag vests parameter
nestling foreclothes in evening 
garnish a ferocious tint to scuffle 
the tentacle monopoly caught thrashing 
the mystic vision of entropic decision 
makers centrifugally forced their tunics
to lumber the years down a broken visage
ragged stencils turning briefs recumbent
slitheed across their radial spectrum
fully bent on blazing economic change
whenever the chronic footage arrives
defunct as remembered incandescence
flatbed trackers nonchalant at the moon 
swivel or tarnished baking another 
slow encumbrance in the traffic heat 
beat sun down to twilight protesting dawn 
a dusk crawling slowly past effulgent stickers 
the foot of a line turning mindless and right 
ladder vacations at the foot of the smile
a miller threads a tailor clustered along 
the detritus benders looting ashore
insinuations of any nuance secretion
rather than stationed barricades aching
mental rationing particles to rhubarb
articulations essential to the herbal mix
when fisticuffs presume archaic legends
the terror missives resume their globe attack
on spiraling vortex splendor mats breeding 
fascination cults too cool for the sullen 
leer of disdain passed off as mere deferential 
magnesium or twelve white flames of tribute
to dictionary warriors dispelled of truth
or pablum founders mumbling regal
teeth-filled camera bytes reflecting
the sickening news that rues the plain
discourse filament turned gamut detector
straining credible stories swollen legal
crust turned moist as leisure post-pursuit
adrenaline reflecting tepid pools to nearer
sediment nights turned slightly leftward
facile engineers bring suits to varnish
the looming floorboard before tuning
radio nations to machinate fashion revolt
cash in the prophetic vision enfolding
bills in the bathysphere’s aching wallet 
soggy deed turned good on appeal
to a higher force than sobriety massage
for petulant scrotum venting measures
bragging riots need to fool intention
before the tongue can strike a word
of reference toward collages deferring
to remonstrance falsettos in armor
paladin rumors divulged afflatus platitudes
fronting amorphous dimensions sweating 
humidity filters dwelling a distant inch
during blow storms fowling wind culture
amorous as the tumid uncertainty calling
apprehensive strategies unfold slowly
while rumination threads its weary barnacle
to cross-stitch the drama last caught
in foreplay episodes of runic frolic
rudderless impresario markers repay
moisture fabrication slot marketers
swallowing retail obliteration units 
recalling every transfer modality garter
left to the retrospective imagination
strangling on pantyhose platitudes
nylon as the most transparent exchange
factored into entry before the recall prince
endowed his creator the alienation of cost
a benefit to ratio monger everywhere 
the ear pencil holds an astute gaze 
to balance hazing the grifting particles
past profligate decathlon entreaties 
barking up the wrong distention quota
de facto imprint squabbles the tactic
where practical actors expecting to hear
impudent relations feed erratic tedium
to matrix blenders favoring screed tactics
over festoon dancing at breakneck
hydrants unleashed a mindful torrent
scattering particle allocation markers
over a fence-bred mausoleum filter
shafted their long illumination slants 
across the yard where brambles weathered
seasonal afflictions to affectation purchased 
under greeting hammers immune 
to wind or sails yardage flumes too near 
the dollar no dispensation acquired for a motto 
left unplugged to ratchet weevil bales in need 
of wire distancing before dawn afflicts the stolen 
ones bearing carriage implode the oratorical 
vacillation fixtures whose textures unfold 
cataleptic legions over the mallway ramp 
to throttle sites marked for destructive 
credence amnesty where parking starlets 
fee the lost valet per uplift or darkened shadow 
placards weighing grange deficit predicted
reasonable discourse padding omelets
rationed to subjugate fertile naturalists
from inclement whether the knot twists
till passion fenders flash when bending
river pylons leading triangular fascination
to monument an icon’s foreign shore
regardless of incision or static depletion
the internal division repeats the tight model
shorn as her own fabric wore to thread
flaring phantom links to varicose nights
veining spiral affectations that pleaded 
loose canons under smoke-filled yearning
lasting long axis derailment protrusion
facets intoned a paddled instep passing
their passion fashioner two-stepped
the grotto harness a sweepstakes unveiled
aleatoric replays cover the untraceable
at random sparks livid the right delay 
portico yawning to the night’s living blade
a delay resumed when drawn conclusions
shadowed past the glimmer of their leaning





In Formation



Coral incursion
cineplex the portable breeze

Rotor capsules tarnished
depot bottoms to transpose new piers 
through scarves and turnkeys

Umbrella transmuters
oblong easily, mute azaleas

where night deposits
longing forebears to simplest

in loaders amassing transit



Backward Bargain



the flange of bland retreat
passing a gradient’s refusal
echoes the nexus reckoning

demon rail yards perused
for functions left attached
to low pigment matters 

hanging the foreplay nuance
its credit stop ensured no later
pigment seals barking fish

where doggerel ellipses
eye a cross-tease close
to shattering montage filler

a carry-on of vestibules
leaks passage demands
school fodder attrition rites

to semblable facsimile dance
merchants carcass vestal pools 
bargaining a flayed perimeter




Another Odyssey on the Comeback Trail



Cross your weary, shore-tossed seas
and bring the semblance back past returning
the fandango as obsolescent tree trunks
invade the stormy parlor game festival.

Attributes rebuked bring sunshine aura
for the sorry corollary tactic, removed
serial misnomers clinging to the numeric 
while myths trampled oracular habits

reaching an oral gain. Proving impractical
during a sunlit margin drained the restive
platelet supervision masters of their iron.
In the fire, the count ran higher than 

texture habits brindling in the windows
at sunset. Past your porcelain tunic lies
a Roman truth, misstated. Pay the sensor

his tossed coining. New phrasing impends 
on it, a revelation to fountain spigots
guarding their flow. Seepage investments
endow sediment with quarterly mergers

waiting for an eon to open its natal spread.
A word to the whys answers few questers.
The storm’s deadening effect stifles patience 
for the double-crossed stride leading home








Mineral LIfe



a token frenzied muffler tablet
left unspoken references
shattered beyond precognition 
or increments of feldspar
integral coyote cards bring seltzer
to receptacles void of entry


forest obligations render buffers
sublet broken preferences unguided
as the latter meant barring all carriers
of suited replicas or androids
parking hemispheres under the ruins


a catacomb never left undone





Media Flay



erupting passenger frenzied
obligato handshake preserve
morsel fed delicious parcel
better than new hope refilled
a ladle trellis corrupting
whoever hopes near fuel
deserves antsy handshakes
true as disrupting new sands
timed to take dyslexic fury
by the scam and cradle
its shaking roster contract
along the dotted lineament
footage undeclared crimes
against their hostile media 
ten times a veer toward new
amulets aching permission
bandits befit animal husbandry
sweepstakes among forlorn
and the foghorn besotted
legends of forcible amplitude
reeking fecundity’s cruciform
pilaster taken after the needy
dulled their velcro sockets
again where pleading a case
left empty among last seekers
embarking on cradle shark
leather whipped to eruption
at the place where ladders duel 



Growing Worse



Tentative ocelot detergent factor
animates resurgent tactile threaders
shedding daily albatross couture,
a nonchalant rebuke. Better stated
cases relate nasal detonation fixtures
applicable to erasing denotation 
when mixture saturations need not reply.
Ample retribution restores inundation
tractors. Threatening the insurgents
breeds caustic multiples. Persuasion 
wilts tract-fed garden homes, still
applying elemental detergent sprockets
to their insurgent disseminators. 
The tilting factotum derides assembly.
Factors dreading participant results 
in chaotic results pursue amulet data.
Fears of hard science shatter
before they rebound. Their resounding store
of luxury sounds the matter of energy
scored against them on previous future nights,
no matter how ground the necklace.
Detergent detonations continue to fragment
stolidity, a solid eczema simulacrum
cracking skin resolutions at pixel strength.
Unironed fortitude breeds casual attire
on tuxedo exit ramps where the fossils cry
redundant footage. Animus breeds
the zoo as native habitat of humanity
shelters bodied flesh in a welter 
of subtones. Acronym seeds glow
acrimonious genders, needing translucent
vectors to request a normal variance.

Elevator Music for Dinner


antiphonal outlet cleaning
tenor’s aching dust a vestibule
outsourcing catapult refectories 
dynamos the creative gum
or sunders the fruitful clerks


a polyrhythm transposed
for leaning ampule verities
must demand more resulting
trajectory reflecting fluid busses
beneath the humming dative 
to parliament’s imperative


of leisure suit esplanade translation
a mitigation notwithstanding 
a participle’s nascent thrust
its beauty appending the leisure
hum of wondering pejorative nations


where with all seems in portent
as punning streams egress
outstanding imitation vendors
feed projections of numbered
imperative subghum consortium

an alliance not to be refried
except as frozen duty bids
columnar running fluid need
redefined as sculptured vision
for a pastry of lost artifacts


Turning Radiant



a marginal tangent breaker allowed
cortical paradigm cassocks designed
to fit button marvels in miracle plays
that delayed chronometric largesse
as mere clockwork fit to be timed
where their meridians rule energy
buffets endless consumption blocks
concrete as any abstract notion vowed
infinity an egg-timer turned sideways
pursuing a lateral vision of ascendance
where beaches replace the sand lost
to hurricane wenches in virtue dives
and roadhouse fill-ins venture to serve
unverified swill to residual truth serpents
revising conjunction laws where passed
particles dramatize the tints of grammar
as tilted toward pinball memories ping
the resurgent avatar headings filtered
presentiment hearings through frost
before chemical thread merchants
spread their meretricious logic vents
over the commotion bound to lure
the sensible entry to varicose sleep
takes the will to climb banners away
from prepositions turned distantly in
or out of for if ever meant bitterly
detritus envy would deaden recipes
where trays never clattered their prey 
to nuisance headings for homage 
replay deferred adolescent climax
ventures grow silt or sliding manners
exchange crudities in a crosswind
blown southerly for vixen trailers
derailed their other tactical delays
starch meters collecting revenge 
on errant dry cleaner declaimers
seeking to avenge true necessity
before its early tablets aroused
missed fission in the fishing hole
where gasping nuclear gargles cling
to every last shred of their half-life



Prophecies on Winter Wind



bring inexplicable ice
to jagged shards where temples fell

leaving human foliage 
an inextricable autumn
to celebrate the ruins

with acts of sedentary rumination

*

candle burners at every wick
and corner seeking dry dock

the hard chill tells no tale of nuance

solitary accusers cling
to predictable gyrations
over a moment's curse

no ragged bell tower clangs

*

extricable cards deck jokers
hanging too near the local outskirts
a sickening ploy to sell fever

arable as breath
of the subcutaneous monks
turning visible 

on a future spoken present




One Over



compendium sharks
slow to trace their concealment

place the armada
in garlic stricture cells
a laser implanting

razor-breath stark repellent

*

taxonomy an equal 
subdivision once removed
from the bait lift

bailed the traffic 
jamming the sequestered 
nutrient fillers

through the gourded pipelines
staking a feigned amenity crisis

*
the calabash left 
darkness unfolded for the ancient 

imperative 
a nameless sequence
the stupor stirs

 a sturdy bludgeon turns captive
Folked Away



pixillated dulcimer plangent
vision skewed across the flay
cushions bent strings filing
folk ways past the core frayed
loose amenity circles springing
wherever ventilation imbued
the play circles with day care
dances loose to the footer
at a distance calling media
names under muffled breath
incursion slants a prophetic lip
in service to unborn cliches
molding in trays left underfoot
that varnish the weary score
an elastic solstice backlit with
butter incarnation tracing roots
back to more pabulum treaties
than the far corps can dominate
or delay circumstantial emission
data sent crosswalk skittering
under a fledgling appellation
spent on frozen carnage deals
played according to the hand
felt feathering another’s palm
under threat of sheep loam
or cattle prancing left to foot
the fear of nomenclature serum
fretting their vertebral colon
strung down the slipping capos
keyed to message thematically 
induced parasol rub treatment
personified as dual nonentity
truculent as any tired driver
canceling a remote presence
at sessions chording tribunals
parked across octave divider
transits pitched to retelling
gourded recriminator feats
stuffed for the piƱata transfer
coming down the middle bend
with a load not taken to frost
or ventilation furies at midnight
aching under envy’s bitter heat
the moribund investment circuits
hoarding magma under crust
a presence turned warning loop
where skies fork pied dividends
to serpent guides on metric delay
before casting thousands ashore
where their washing scrubbed 
cleanser lyrics to dynamo fluid
camped under rarefied surname
headers affixed to stable entry
however deadening the flats
that sharpen the flavor maid
fallen rounds of steerage earn
a circular flume its descent
before dampened registers
longing for unbidden glamour
teams announce rostrum cling
banners gliding to help pastiche
repel enabled surcharge vendors

bent on spooning clipped physics
cardboard to dysfunctional lips
disrespectfully pursed a cursor
saved from dashboard influenza
drifting a rearview blind-side
categorically unclassified flash
finding vertical hangar slits
before normal throttles accrue
stately carnival buttocks shard
resume displacements cling
refurbished memory tantrums
shingle the atrium harness
before the shrill tonsil flute
splits the pitch of catgut fillet 
hybrid tuning the fork to a
pitch the tangent can circle
before the moribund cattle
enter cursing wagons circled
against the feathered charge
regaling the rushing window
before the oncoming panes 
shatter the canvas of legend
running a lengthy slide note
vents a wholesome viewing 
scene as cunning as its bend

Fudging the Bottom Line



binding straw
reared sentence bite
in color

fourth paleness frightened

     *

air disappeared 
until morning announced 
the time ago 

perturbed the public cyclone

    *

fanlight complete
hill pigments exceeded
fall persistence

exchanged 
the margins clasping form



Turning Dark Again



orbital placebo sky
trimmed nightly as an aftermath

conjunction detrimental
where legends of past demands
spring their vernal sequins

noxious catacombs leak splendor

gardens ventilate 
when creaking roofs intone
their telepathic replay

to transmit 
a slow decay as path and pace



Direction Restored



the new portcullis necrophilia dagger
a courtly debacle passing as cool
releases the feel of a lowly plectrum
to ganders unstrung from barking
auto plasma stickers horn refulgent
as all-day shag vests parameter
nestling foreclothes in evening 
garnish a ferocious tint to scuffle 
the tentacle monopoly caught thrashing 
the mystic vision of entropic decision 
makers centrifugally forced their tunics
to lumber the years down a broken visage
ragged stencils turning briefs recumbent
slitheed across their radial spectrum
fully bent on blazing economic change
whenever the chronic footage arrives
defunct as remembered incandescence
flatbed trackers nonchalant at the moon 
swivel or tarnished baking another 
slow encumbrance in the traffic heat 
beat sun down to twilight protesting dawn 
a dusk crawling slowly past effulgent stickers 
the foot of a line turning mindless and right 
ladder vacations at the foot of the smile
a miller threads a tailor clustered along 
the detritus benders looting ashore
insinuations of any nuance secretion
rather than stationed barricades aching
mental rationing particles to rhubarb
articulations essential to the herbal mix
when fisticuffs presume archaic legends
the terror missives resume their globe attack
on spiraling vortex splendor mats breeding 
fascination cults too cool for the sullen 
leer of disdain passed off as mere deferential 
magnesium or twelve white flames of tribute
to dictionary warriors dispelled of truth
or pablum founders mumbling regal
teeth-filled camera bytes reflecting
the sickening news that rues the plain
discourse filament turned gamut detector
straining credible stories swollen legal
crust turned moist as leisure post-pursuit
adrenaline reflecting tepid pools to nearer
sediment nights turned slightly leftward
facile engineers bring suits to varnish
the looming floorboard before tuning
radio nations to machinate fashion revolt
cash in the prophetic vision enfolding
bills in the bathysphere’s aching wallet 
soggy deed turned good on appeal
to a higher force than sobriety massage
for petulant scrotum venting measures
bragging riots need to fool intention
before the tongue can strike a word
of reference toward collages deferring
to remonstrance falsettos in armor
paladin rumors divulged afflatus platitudes
fronting amorphous dimensions sweating 
humidity filters dwelling a distant inch
during blow storms fowling wind culture
amorous as the tumid uncertainty calling
apprehensive strategies unfold slowly
while rumination threads its weary barnacle
to cross-stitch the drama last caught
in foreplay episodes of runic frolic
rudderless impresario markers repay
moisture fabrication slot marketers
swallowing retail obliteration units 
recalling every transfer modality garter
left to the retrospective imagination
strangling on pantyhose platitudes
nylon as the most transparent exchange
factored into entry before the recall prince
endowed his creator the alienation of cost
a benefit to ratio monger everywhere 
the ear pencil holds an astute gaze 
to balance hazing the grifting particles
past profligate decathlon entreaties 
barking up the wrong distention quota
de facto imprint squabbles the tactic
where practical actors expecting to hear
impudent relations feed erratic tedium
to matrix blenders favoring screed tactics
over festoon dancing at breakneck
hydrants unleashed a mindful torrent
scattering particle allocation markers
over a fence-bred mausoleum filter
shafted their long illumination slants 
across the yard where brambles weathered
seasonal afflictions to affectation purchased 
under greeting hammers immune 
to wind or sails yardage flumes too near 
the dollar no dispensation acquired for a motto 
left unplugged to ratchet weevil bales in need 
of wire distancing before dawn afflicts the stolen 
ones bearing carriage implode the oratorical 
vacillation fixtures whose textures unfold 
cataleptic legions over the mallway ramp 
to throttle sites marked for destructive 
credence amnesty where parking starlets 
fee the lost valet per uplift or darkened shadow 
placards weighing grange deficit predicted
reasonable discourse padding omelets
rationed to subjugate fertile naturalists
from inclement whether the knot twists
till passion fenders flash when bending
river pylons leading triangular fascination
to monument an icon’s foreign shore
regardless of incision or static depletion
the internal division repeats the tight model
shorn as her own fabric wore to thread
flaring phantom links to varicose nights
veining spiral affectations that pleaded 
loose canons under smoke-filled yearning
lasting long axis derailment protrusion
facets intoned a paddled instep passing
their passion fashioner two-stepped
the grotto harness a sweepstakes unveiled
aleatoric replays cover the untraceable
at random sparks livid the right delay 
portico yawning to the night’s living blade
a delay resumed when drawn conclusions
shadowed past the glimmer of their leaning





In Formation



Coral incursion
cineplex the portable breeze

Rotor capsules tarnished
depot bottoms to transpose new piers 
through scarves and turnkeys

Umbrella transmuters
oblong easily, mute azaleas

where night deposits
longing forebears to simplest

in loaders amassing transit



Backward Bargain



the flange of bland retreat
passing a gradient’s refusal
echoes the nexus reckoning

demon rail yards perused
for functions left attached
to low pigment matters 

hanging the foreplay nuance
its credit stop ensured no later
pigment seals barking fish

where doggerel ellipses
eye a cross-tease close
to shattering montage filler

a carry-on of vestibules
leaks passage demands
school fodder attrition rites

to semblable facsimile dance
merchants carcass vestal pools 
bargaining a flayed perimeter




Another Odyssey on the Comeback Trail



Cross your weary, shore-tossed seas
and bring the semblance back past returning
the fandango as obsolescent tree trunks
invade the stormy parlor game festival.

Attributes rebuked bring sunshine aura
for the sorry corollary tactic, removed
serial misnomers clinging to the numeric 
while myths trampled oracular habits

reaching an oral gain. Proving impractical
during a sunlit margin drained the restive
platelet supervision masters of their iron.
In the fire, the count ran higher than 

texture habits brindling in the windows
at sunset. Past your porcelain tunic lies
a Roman truth, misstated. Pay the sensor

his tossed coining. New phrasing impends 
on it, a revelation to fountain spigots
guarding their flow. Seepage investments
endow sediment with quarterly mergers

waiting for an eon to open its natal spread.
A word to the whys answers few questers.
The storm’s deadening effect stifles patience 
for the double-crossed stride leading home








Mineral LIfe



a token frenzied muffler tablet
left unspoken references
shattered beyond precognition 
or increments of feldspar
integral coyote cards bring seltzer
to receptacles void of entry


forest obligations render buffers
sublet broken preferences unguided
as the latter meant barring all carriers
of suited replicas or androids
parking hemispheres under the ruins


a catacomb never left undone









Media Flay



erupting passenger frenzied
obligato handshake preserve
morsel fed delicious parcel
better than new hope refilled
a ladle trellis corrupting
whoever hopes near fuel
deserves antsy handshakes
true as disrupting new sands
timed to take dyslexic fury
by the scam and cradle
its shaking roster contract
along the dotted lineament
footage undeclared crimes
against their hostile media 
ten times a veer toward new
amulets aching permission
bandits befit animal husbandry
sweepstakes among forlorn
and the foghorn besotted
legends of forcible amplitude
reeking fecundity’s cruciform
pilaster taken after the needy
dulled their velcro sockets
again where pleading a case
left empty among last seekers
embarking on cradle shark
leather whipped to eruption
at the place where ladders duel 



Growing Worse



Tentative ocelot detergent factor
animates resurgent tactile threaders
shedding daily albatross couture,
a nonchalant rebuke. Better stated
cases relate nasal detonation fixtures
applicable to erasing denotation 
when mixture saturations need not reply.
Ample retribution restores inundation
tractors. Threatening the insurgents
breeds caustic multiples. Persuasion 
wilts tract-fed garden homes, still
applying elemental detergent sprockets
to their insurgent disseminators. 
The tilting factotum derides assembly.
Factors dreading participant results 
in chaotic results pursue amulet data.
Fears of hard science shatter
before they rebound. Their resounding store
of luxury sounds the matter of energy
scored against them on previous future nights,
no matter how ground the necklace.
Detergent detonations continue to fragment
stolidity, a solid eczema simulacrum
cracking skin resolutions at pixel strength.
Unironed fortitude breeds casual attire
on tuxedo exit ramps where the fossils cry
redundant footage. Animus breeds
the zoo as native habitat of humanity
shelters bodied flesh in a welter 
of subtones. Acronym seeds glow
acrimonious genders, needing translucent
vectors to request a normal variance.

Elevator Music for Dinner


antiphonal outlet cleaning
tenor’s aching dust a vestibule
outsourcing catapult refectories 
dynamos the creative gum
or sunders the fruitful clerks


a polyrhythm transposed
for leaning ampule verities
must demand more resulting
trajectory reflecting fluid busses
beneath the humming dative 
to parliament’s imperative


of leisure suit esplanade translation
a mitigation notwithstanding 
a participle’s nascent thrust
its beauty appending the leisure
hum of wondering pejorative nations


where with all seems in portent
as punning streams egress
outstanding imitation vendors
feed projections of numbered
imperative subghum consortium

an alliance not to be refried
except as frozen duty bids
columnar running fluid need
redefined as sculptured vision
for a pastry of lost artifacts