Moanather

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Rubric Stew

When blanks become the tuning fork’s ponderous escapade, a cooling quart’s inkling presents searchlight scuff marks to any animal’s sentient stutter craft, gesturing to manifold implements. Hoarse encyclicals prestidigitate and giggle soundtrack hues, offending castaways with Caspian vibes, borrowing more ocular razors from jeering reticular owls. Springs confer with tread marks of canned thermos eaters, grazing glassy eyes with stern pealing fluid. Yogic undertows startle gel tortoises into flange perusal, greasing executive locust meal for elevated tricksters, spendthrifts, and jostled keyboard runes. Fiercely taken oil slacks protest the sparse pretext’s lopped and shifty fief, dueling over futility’s pejorative whine. Branding an inner flank’s wisecrack, epitaphs elope for creamier classless fumes, emending mountainous urgings with snowblind fits of royal gauge gumdrops. Jolly bears descend to valet tip jar ruins, nattering forever about mellifluous pacifiers, hedging bobbled dolls against the mainspring’s gullet, swelling to seized drainage pines. Horoscopes connive and ward off ellipsoidal collies, handing bestial verdure to warm thematic slurries of brood machines, capturing obtuse limes for rubric stew. Measured tears emerge from tanned kerchief markers, planting newly woven towers amid a fielder’s choicest glut of sneering patent shoes. Trapping elderly percolation peaks, a lint tarp pleats longings into lasting trellis moons, parting the frustum’s wooden spoon with hairnets made of fried stones.

Callipie Whoopers

Ashcanioth chambrian hewthin memsialt, drine Onglie plangwich, fental und fryinlie preent ecreplastin spailin et unalube atinate ection. Whadalidle Phronchie tronean eers, floiced tapharce damusingo rhoundun frownian. Whomsoelfin cano scrape effluvium dansmochie dreckso slofix oarship, ationwhite und spittled, dansie rancil prenchian mort. Hau floxt weiren, airie guardial, exioter prophentilous, spielin tindersalt aswords amadshop’s masthips goblue. Haranima shattel proys epontule dren sprunchie golamiter, leapondoki quence eber faromy hedge. Spletenta menchian hearoms tagainian, stended plassupers endintso fark’s creschin callipie whoopers, whech ofter ahintuva lorginal hatrick’s orician whiel.

Iliadic Interlude

A mood of quiet commiseration overtook Troy, enabling equine parameters, cinching down an arrow’s fundamental flaw. Hellions emerged from turnkey wallows, immersed in graven plumes of walled fat, trimming tired axles of their sampled hubcap news. Stares begat stories, tensile and improved, opening the beauty of unified peerage to amorphous clearance quail. Toothy grinders followed, champing senders, switching pigeons for handbrake offal, settling for vestiges of a woolen cot. Rooms fueled for armistice, beds launched at onset inklings, and infinite hoteliers grew algae with rhythmic angst, kneading half a tatterdemalion’s frozen flower to win. The bagled price of an airy quote, beading and fluorescent in the twilit breeze, gushed about two newly spewn fumes, reaching a trickle. Wharves declined to resect the plastic buoy’s musical cat, staving in the centaur, throwing quartz. Banter merged with literate brooms, leading horticulture’s systemic hooters into a craven web of nosy Greys, spreading spherical birds before a spate of colored yarn.

Grobber Tarene

Timial floroplastian lifiar rechlings plon dreiter irimantular phrex, hordging quize elmon fubim horopace. Squetchel wrongian spenter, prexel anomiste plute, bren deiner engamulin smooter goreen. Oxy, wentin mongerium etchodipes quent a grakesuin fleech, heppling entocherling oodgie, per spanckles detripous efeat. Wheggle tringean poock amondries, elter anthrosten hoogles wiltot engo drid tounimal phrogt. Sempilan etcheroff, eiter spreng heckstian vold seeda homboid ith unafrem kleit paraskein, gippling thun mozin breckbart, weither zein. Regubalt spim trendelim hoond, gargem menter reisborn greiter, hebbling blupher, grean drouble tran eishorn caffices. Haidean knoth, spiet garamulin; bromet und etermaline darutes shelt prend unko respewe, greptalin smorb, arkafillian grobber tarene.

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Pantomime of Exile

Flecks of canal dust mask our caulked tornado breath, bolstering a truth table’s taut, ontological gimme, wrapping future’s hocked alarms in swaddling Sunday crosswords. Extremities pause at doorstep monkeys, please a dirge mechanic’s softened insignia, and weigh a plumb line’s soothing grammatical itch, sputtering to the old-fashioned paralysis of limber floor typology and marigolds embalmed in cheese. Uniformed bastions detain a starry olive, routing the saddened entrée through sloughed-off neighborhoods and punctured alley tunes. Villas crumble to the beat of a sentient tree, gasping for heirloom montage meals, settling for marginal graphite. Lurid movie gulls swipe penthouse pools from watery geezers, plunder the oily bird’s laxative stash, and rap a domestic lender’s brute nativity, emulating sheer nachos. Pilgrims press on, through bourbon heights and tollbooth mirage hearts, anxiously gnawing at artichokes, greedily pumping our orbital stats. Elegant temps handle charioteers, murmuring sour reminders, hemming sweet cufflinks for sleeveless contextual heaps. When feral cleats ensnare the mewing clairvoyant, placing a sarcophagus on layaway, the brooding crowd will find an exiled pantomime of never-ending place names, panning for gilded crusts.

Breathliffy

Blankarophiles kentinial spooner con mutuo ochi der sneg, pintonium unustie vitian pongh, ventoni et oomen turem. Echtonier proutian bramel oranet, con tumili forch alen dred. Whogranite vastechen forember und ought, asde natif noot sexamire swiggen larot guttysharkian phlounder frawthe depthian seizure, wharyebe clomin frem, event onyer berryblast fried licentious platen die ruckentie moult. Fer what d’ya time ellenall mannero trengs datyaduz, canoen fowl wholly dat nadatingling dispensation ken maki maki heiffer une vivela stupendous domicile ona corporeal pecknock’s antsy verge. Donutbe denyinit, eet’s truthful eenany ollyogical shipstem, unconsistuent tabayshurely as wanderers meet the twain. Jest lemme half abetode truismatic truss aforeya gobellyup eggwise und rocksolid livery stages exeunt stage air forsomever, luftinya breathliffy.

Outer County Moons

Cranial trout purloin a reservoir’s limbed lucidity from limpid whirls of causal dates, lingering in cyclic wharves of silt and drainage days. Spurning freed infinity, a mangrove speaks of heat control and wart calumny, asking fierce entrusted feet for just a kick of cruising pepper, whisked in solid mating fuel’s impacted tome. Springing glacial sports on neophytes without the benefit of domestic rain, our treed banter reveals only the smallest tractor, farming a haunting estuary of cold crab sockets, draining the linear pond of flying friars and flea machines. There came an impious graffiti salesman named Anterior Slim, who neutered a thousand panels of old Niagara falsies per hard-working day, turning ragged sleeves to leeward ashcans, altered by fusion greeters in stairwells of strip mall consequences. Who can top the frequent antique, posh in its empty implications, lettered in bronzed baby feet, helping itself to a swollen, craven smokescreen? Sequestered fleas spin a mock entrapment gig for megatons of flowing meat, amplified by garter snakes, entering philanthropic paste tureens for florid puffs of glazing pews, enameled with a busty spleen. Hardened spinal tents rear their English headstones at noise eraser trees, spinning dusty catacombs if whereabouts return for samples. Weathered reputations fuse tense users, spreading caramel ingots and choice emetic grooves, crippling the lamb’s infected malaise, winching a gummy scanner’s puerile glass of keepsake notions. Seagoing grapes bob fitfully, hammering their usual man’s loose intestines with bile and breakneck detergent, landing the choir in shortbread stew. Galoshes squeak of trailing drips and ominous eroding smelt, rowing across the channel’s futile changer, limbering up the wagon’s seventh steed for heady flurries of smog, demanding dioramas of nocturnal chanters. Tensile oppression infers hyperacute weaning propellers, hefting beet rituals across bridge leaflets, buying affair juice from mantra punks on outer county moons.

Wooesday

Darkentine wardleroth finds smeterly quartiles of sammerlie grinderhead, smooching on hemples of odgers und totes in a wobbledy order of ambling commodes. Yes, he knoweth knots from tenter horbles on a porter to gee; he combinert einer grutzelang mit chortles of brie und crecks his oven knockles, climbin grapeshot infusions whenda stashmarill trikes bellcouth Wooesday. Whellthun, mebe yuvayen forjava, mebe juanforsee; elsewise yetendta plashter on a boam ovino; thopraps yeronle slober whanceye canoe breathe daoiler’s wake oturmoil wasser, curried ento sunlid raisinbrawn commers. 

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Blip

Awful lures embalm a flotilla, rip palimony bibs, mock entrapment, and dart off camera, hanging on to doting werewolves. Hours slither through the teething blush, holding cosmic centaurs in taut, hirsute carp buckets. Builders sign a neater clown and opine freely. Conflagrations congratulate chirping otters, slow to tainted sizzling loops, and wheedle ancillary jocks. Triadic genders lodge forelocks in the king, shudder at imaginary, brittle creamers, and plod beneath calumny. Easy chocolate equates stark fungoes, capped jungles, steep tangos, wrought thimbles, and skittish limbo. Meaner than a dopey siren, a cowling shirks its sooty croissant, angles for dermatology, thirsts aloud, and clasps buttressed sockets. Misty vinaigrette smothers the entrails, watches a glow-worm, and smugly undulates, eliciting a long, bold whimper from a headset. Tabular rectification complete, a troubadour (salacious and unafraid) ingratiates his gloating bustle at midnight, only to bind snoring computations. Amputees implore proverbial wincers, find them slacking off, and gear up for the yearling, churning to bequeath. Ossified fables collect musty differentials, axe celery moccasins, and levitate wooden posters, unmasking a stalled innuendo. Implications far from home, a seaward tenant wrists basaltic liners onto the menu, angering the mead. Boatswains wipe their well-fed stogies, drool crude oil, muff the spinal Pop-Tart, cruise for legendary hooters, and nettle the chaplain's girdle. Life groans on, wends its main course, seems harmless, almost intransigent; butchers soil the flipper pile, scarcity the issue; barter overtakes aluminum box sites, halting the killing, slaving the baying dune. Aegean longitudes sparkle and grow, spin the grove, fall for creasing foreheads, and lust after toll-house dunce caps. Alcohol derives grating plunder from sand-filled entrecotes, cheapening the messy donor precession. Perturbations flock to heckle the candy plate, flummoxed and careening. Wrapping primers, involved with caulking moans, slander any wanton prism, hauling drops to bleat the fried bell. Secret elders quiver at thresholds unseen, prepare the breakthrough, and crawl for the rejection. Shooters downed and throats canvassed, a flock of churlish maggots head for parts ungowned, foolishly tending to regulative pleasures. Seas tipped, dharma rains acrylic wavelets, eyepieces, palm trees, and jowls. Earrings are set for next peak, mounting glaciers impregnate heaving, thoracic potions, and tent flaps yawn at the percept of forgone illusions. Relaxation flows freely, aboard a blip.

Rutagavined

Derugian penders, grinnage and gorce,

canfabble bor smitee corroden gen,

ackle eerendontal ind parubentian,

clippentie morth.

Achempt eg zeegar whieb,

esplougian en ots hebad knytfind,

crogs orchendous elephlogs af pilgure,

kon whoobald em ers harrudence

unt nefted, prosen quind.

Ansudal edgels smert hafoon,

carubential ogtop hatchef tog,

eskened feem tros eldent,

merguman teggle spie.

Archankut, hegrumin stossile poths

predut che rutigavined ordine pree,

enembly unp expant

en etstowspry, lencish dreet.

The Queasy Train

Sequestered gimlets,

palettes of geranium sunrise,

and geese with frozen hyenas

cast a sneering, almost westerly glance

at cataleptic, neural pheasants.

Simpletons abound in unrecovered saplings,

toast a central fin potion, and nibble at esoterica

with grave, ventral fuel marauders, hopping on

kittens made of synthetic cheese.

A waxen, porcelain pinafore,

sailing for gowns ungrown,

flexes its reptilian landing gear

for every concubinal deluge,

holding the queasy train hostage.

Lowered lights wink

at inundated cart makers,

intensify the guttural twilight,

moon a floral dinghy in disarray,

and steam for bilingual backpacks,

helping the homeless

to plates of charred confetti.

Canfirescent Knoose

He gobone, congibbot eet,

ein contradictous otomy elf pleavent,

odermoothing kleig,

aspirgal in its omnitentious, blonk orimery,

canbancled twisht veery speermang cordophlatters.

Linned tro wot anolter hedgrum twagger,

eckster arseterox uv egner speths

exgraminate a carutillion aogger meads,

arthru ech iblang chane fu youtimous.

Wasping hosthine gotorague,

imbly ons ejempir rost,

arcant heggle eaches pein twubble,

urned toff, owardent ag erobile.

Tuch mimean spietels,

owered int entofluvian aisting pote,

won oon dynt krule, wein toily gransom,

spearn weaty griem.

Dretch conbleckle phloraglam,

canfirescent knoose,

mid ermious hodge ind do penpirot crollop

if hernagle weddle andenture eim oontif,

percurrian holliporodge.

Circadian Sunset

Encapsulated octothorpes,

emblazoned in solid brass ingots

of ignominious pewter potables,

flee into the quartzite hillocks

of known derangement,

hobnobbing with the filial fungoes

of feral phoneme workers everywhere,

whiling away a whaler's day.

Models on a dude ranch,

smeared and flexing,

pump frenetic trains for platitudes,

pleasing the royal net society's

quasi-robotic gist machine.

Handedness hints at stressed factions,

toting embellished warnings,

climbing glassine pillars of sterile infidelity,

caressing and giving glued portions

to cowering, whimsical sidebars.

Sanding down a gravy kit,

a papier-mache buoy bobs

serenely in the circadian sunset,

tippling from a moose.

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The Pleasure Craft’s Solitude

Oh, the long days of flimsy neckties

and whimsical beechnut stigmata.

Hoping for an unseen flotilla,

whipped along by canvas,

watery eyes ply the sky,

treasure fills the lacquered oaks,

and feet flash with flecks of girlish surprise.

Gathering steam, wavefronts

speak of boats and torn pence,

ushering out the latent yarn.

Mending a menial taint of froth,

yet another admiral’s wanderings

are wont to hear the message

in the pleasure craft’s solitude.

Daydreamers waft into clear auteurs,

knowing the snap of wooden lullabies.

Top Secret Runway Model

Saunter, precious lambchop,

beyond the Dacron lighthouse,

across the Velcro plain,

to underwear stands on any city street,

to art left for the postman,

to garbage worth gold to the governed,

to the disco beat’s retreat to acoustic and voice,

overdubbed kung fu cracks and thuds,

and a small restaurant aroma of ambiguity and cheese,

just a touch of oregano and Oreos,

with bells chiming hits of the previous century.

The Neophyte’s Last Circumstance

Endure, noble peanut.

Quiver down the maypole, total gorgon.

Canter to a beat unnoticed

by a gaggle of voltage flutes,

implying hewn sand couches.

Empty the astral xylophone

before planter poultice

purloins the unguent.

Quaff the rabid washing torus,

lest the whip and surge

of vacuous side lobes

sweep the horizon from your ken.

Banter, whimper, and haggle

with ladles and martial gongs.

Jabber, flicker, and relive

the neophyte’s last circumstance,

belying all accredited quicksand motels.

The Forest of Fontainebleau

Binding the spherical with the phonic,

holograms give way to plenty,

rapture yields to rhythm,

and warblers wobble just a bit

on the wangling weather vane.

Pointillism in life,

like reductionism in death,

gives the view screen

just a hint of gumption,

a slowing of paroxysm,

and a yearning for all that is green

in the louvered gentility.

Hearkening to the scream

of the wintering swarm,

a footfall breaks choir samples

on a rivulet of stream.

Stars slither to a beat unfelt,

plums devour the waiting salt granules,

and leaf farms warm

to the tinge of a work trowel.

A State Dinner

                                   

Snacking on hickory portents,

filthy beckonings yield

to the tatterdemalion’s oratorio.

Holding the effusive wombat at bay,

exigent tonsure sounds the tocsin,

reviles a rubicund phial of stygian spume,

and peculates a melange

of incommodious declivities.

A collier beleaguers

an equable potentate,

taking umbrage at

a winsome yeoman’s trumpery.

Plenipotentiary subalterns

inculcate the poltroon

in the ways of defalcation,

only to cozen

a brindled, arrant miscreant.

A venial, ursine welter

of uxorious sybarites

sings paeans in full panoply,

their orotund parlance

a moiety of nascent necrology.

Murrain eschews the ewer,

decries the decollete proscenium,

and substitutes

shibboleths for sobriquets.

Temerarious libertines

incite the hale gibbet

to froward philandering,

their piscatorial gasconade

enervating the disquisition.

A diva connives

to harrow the plebescite

with postprandial simpering,

but viscid viands roil

the querulous raconteur,

whose mews launder

the libidinous guffaws

of forensic harridans.

John Pursch lives in Tucson, Arizona. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in asbestos boots on beatnik feet, Blue & Yellow Dog, Breadcrumb Scabs, Calliope Nerve, Camel Saloon, Carcinogenic Poetry, Clockwise Cat, Counterexample Poetics, Eskimo Pie, experiential-experimental-literature, Four and Twenty, Indigo Rising Magazine, ken*again, Orion headless, Otoliths, Poetry Sz, Puffin Circus, quarter after, The Rainbow Rose, and vox poetica. You can follow his work at http://twitter.com/johnpursch .