In No Particular Order

facial + poem sample

James Browning Kepple
(Ink & Drinks)

"we lay on sand and draw superhuman bunnies
giant sand pieces of our love for superhuman bunnies"

The poet known as O. 
(Spiritual Visor)

"perhaps my personal rage overbrims the streets with juvenile tears,"

Kim Göransson
(Writer's Block Coordinator)

"using this clam
I will suck out all the daylight
and place it in your hand,  
gently"

John L.         
(European Correspondent)        

"We will be vegetable,
unknown and terrible
the ultimate sin of our
indifferent, fossil lips."

Mebane Robertson
(Euthanasia & Archive )

 "but the agency 
Wants to update my file and run some Rhine tests. I told them, 
Before you lock the door, make sure I’m actually inside this time."

Terry Louise Kelly
(Prescriptions & Hats)

" . . . the house lights fall, the bastion breathes in death, absorbed in plastic culture."

Matthew Gerald Moseman
(banned poet in residence)

"[Ghazis! Mujahededeen! Jihadists! Terrorists! UH-BUHGHA-WUGA-WUGA! BOO!]"

al-gene pennison lll                       (Emo Researcher)

"& you duck into a (dark) (deserted)
 
curio shop
      to escape the acid rain"

Pedro "El Lagarto Borroso" 
(Accounting)

"Lacking his own words 
to cover him, time dripped 
onto his body."

Lyndsey Anderson
(Fireworks Inventory)

"The child turns thirty

cocooned in the hum of atoms,

the primordial sounds of Wordsworth,"

Julian Talamantez Brolaski
(charlie goshdang chaplin)

"alexander the great
my contemporary
girding the neck
au quelque crossroads
wot disgorges
the libertine’s lap
n the ganymede’s hole"

m. crow
(retrieval)

to his newest incarnation .
the hoarse projections
a new art inventing itself
from his timely
demise .

Saira Viola
(Scatterscript Technician)

Her day was punched with silence 
And hand me down promises
Only ten summers blushed and already her dreams are splintered with hate
Through the filmy curtain of her left eye 

Taras Malkovych
(Ukraine Operations)

I longed to see in my dreams
a Carthaginian interpreter with his tattoo –
a parrot with wings open wide.

Penni Blow aka karasukokoro aka ateto mort
(Cat Mystic)

"the unit is unlike others i have visited
rounder, flowinger, welcominger
but there is still this-"

Travis Jeppesen
(Hall Monitor)

A new kind of chewing gum can satisfy 
all tastes. It's amazing, the stuff 
they come up with these days. It makes 
me glad I'm not allergic to the sun.

 Hélène Cardona
(Florist)
No resources wasted like granary in empty houses,
She makes me gardener of memories.
Only bliss, and she the flower Mage,
Roses climbing back into my life,

Kitchen Poet                                          
(Lost & Found)

"I am simple 4am nightmares. I don't sing songs, leave doors open, lean into
conversations."
                                                                                                         on facefuck)

Allan Harold Rex
(Train support)

"the arduous sonorous sea now a bellowing mother
scrape the ominous oddments 
of their merriment in the turbulent sea

and lament with a prayer
its lecherous flag" 

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Joschua Beres
(hydrogen engineer)



we should live like the atomic bomb 
shaking our souls into thunder clouds
singing electric hallelujah praises.

---

Rose Kathence Mae
(freedom fighter)


I conquered. 
Opened my legs. 
Piercing veils of dusty blue, you prince.
Film me.

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Volodymyr Bilyk
(WWIII Historian)
End in the mood of doom
Sounds good
For rip and dip and drip
And those inflections
Sing along
just after curves had tightened up
The clod for clobber

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Nick Gaitan
(Gulf  coast  Guru)

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Sean Brijbasi
(Font sitter)

"oh"