19. dreadshift

commit Kafka · kintsugi
iron pong · relict hotness strayed
August into early May

Sargasso insanity
of seconds & effigies
& glosses · but Oz is void:

all the flying monkeys, here

here ends HOT NEPTUNE longpoem

Full City Rooster.

18. not a bouncy castle

the snicker-snack this knife craves
of shock troops & troglodyte's
dawn flush · phosphorus bindi

beast language blurs · latticework
so festive & medicruel
Greenville Avenue crunk

crow-mobbed owl each follicle
a flood would not scrub cleaner
then sandwiched grub-fashion i

for shekels & shelter-crack
but built with a tinny black
radar sweep · robot Tormance

with flubber bounce · blunt oobleck
blurbed · sang snotgreen anguishes
full-fledged · lime Depression glass

Wisconsin Death Trip.

17. the bleakening hills

move on or cease falling down
ratfucked oboeton window
on ratfucked blowback on clown

austerity ferrets prowl
& snicker at · which makes me
incog roam & rolf ichor

of bughouse · harsh runoff tombs
the castle · jetlag fountain
caresses the air with flow

beryllium-lit muzak
to stop data fossicking
a flaw in the solid flue

these monkeyshines must sharktank
& flatter our shambling chull
& nestle in slester-brook

"In the modern Vulcan language...it contained no word that corresponded to coincidence...In addition, there was no Vulcan word for comedian and thus they were forced to use the English version when referring to it...This was evident by the fact that there was no term for joke within the Vulcan language...It was also stated that there were no curse words within their tongue."

16. greenhouse in the sky

quite · fallout wind · solemn cabbage
whose summit is once having
mustang ridden · pranced on moon

but nevermore · heavy foot
Grandwyck on an MP3
the rock transformed · otterplay

eyes shut wide abundant drift
of glass goblin dramamine
-while · hedgeloaned sequestionmark

moth-pillage · emit what light
a mothman can · Hobson's chess
makes one move & resigning

lifts satellite-wag drain stink
afresh & shows whether this
toxic edge-palace can last

Annike.

15. scum soiree

& lawn mowers call the rain
though what silence utters here
my caltrops of magpie hwyl

invest with pink cellophane
& inch t'ward salted tea by
much salty food wash with tea

down · tub people crummy books
here dragged to sell ask only
that their tub be let taken

back · fill small coffins again
gunslaughter days · shut down hopes
usual words fly · none of mine

imagined to have power
wild shell collapse · legend birth
quebrith rain · closed window not

The art and activism of the Anthropocene.

14. five bills

a robber of fontanelles
arval fast & thud forage
in dag wood, in dragon store

gun stereo blaring fire
amidst our relinquest chull
sexbot fact'ry jogging track

i understand much yet speak
with random wrong pax Mothra
delecti corpestuous

dayglitter on Tick Mountain
i walked out & saw burning
a glut of paddock bridegrooms

hillcrag left turn sapphire blink
train trestle pass threading thought
eclipse dust shaped into man

William Soutar.

13. magpie bridge

clownpox or clown frolic where
enough bad cess must revive
our last broken grasp of grief

our next worried breath of smoke
by flickerlight brisk snipers
pick off stragglers not your friends

then some dark night the clown's you
reaction boils at red lights
the medical sector hums

adrift on sewage i flirt
apology rockets tip
eCanoe doodle bargain

unfangled collapse hunger
for next to direction hurt
my fist your officious face

“A place like Earth will wilt the flesh off your bones unless you can make fun of it, or treat its persons and places as no worse than ghosts and ghost places.” --R A Lafferty

The crazed gruntbark nesting dolls version.

12. islay brothers

the pillbug writes its saga
in lofty verse · garnishes
pillbugly laurels &

the ratchet clicks · lapdog grunt
limbec growl collects · at dawn
i swallow toad gauzily

the utmost reach of will
then stranded on astroturf
i reck my beachhead of sorts

there's shipwreck & illness stretch
as far as eyes follow, till
this blur-seam becomes life's goal

the ratchet clicks happily
funest lungfish settles for
a siltdown talk with ozone

We wear the mask.

"Even the possible has its insoluble particle." --Emly Dickinson

11. orc levee: velcro

frozen plain · near zero · frog
galoshes · Xbox frigid
memes · skull scoop pistol whiplash

these fragments i have lined up
fortress of dark nethermost
clowns built · meanwhile filterless

cigs loll · change lanes vesselyaw
constantly · annul this way
with rank parallax pivot

duress with a plebiscite
that spills out white infamy
a small thing but not my Norn

rendering all talk static
impacts here more than elsewhere
old vessels burst bearing wine

Haida Gwaii.

10. meander rood name

who rang with lead Saturn rings
who said he would better try
who lit top candid for naught

found rotted sjambok treasures
& lucked out a nexus or two
the flaccid gaze mastered of

annexation deadlock vogue
elixir quaff in halved vugg
ghostship pustule ostiole

shards run off & coven crowned
Jalgclatter the savage heart
Sylvesterpope network torn

the Fifth Extinction slimed
road ruts potholes busted glass
the best minds wraiths dedicate

Was Emily Dickinson autistic?

19. tienta

commit Kafka · kintsugi
iron pong · relict hotness strayed
August into early May

Sargasso insanity
of seconds & effigies
& glosses · but Oz is void:

all the flying monkeys, here

"When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love." --Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (1954)

9. O Naso mimosa, no!

forever in red tooth claw
whose whisper chord if not all
still rocks the flintlop pilcrow

wingnut Hop-Toad upside our
head · with love leaded · grim
chimpanzee Atlantis-lost

in sessions of debt thinking
realize how similar
how far from unwrong my own

truth journey has sufficed · blue
but background hue · thwackings more
spark resonant serif gift

but wins void-votive · i show
course dross & words hobble tell
a sculpted smidge runny ore

Johnny Got His Gun stage adaptation.

8. rennet adim amid a tenner

unless served already shorn
of witness-twanged zither threads
Memnon-righteous · collagen

zebub the wind tunnel tunes
a lasting sway · can't restore
unfettered egress swiftly

unknit the secret of design
drone lobbed out of occiput
no Sputnik trace of carport

Uzlaugh · thick like blackstrap pour
to bless with roach welter long
crimethink & grow bitter grow

robotproof & mock of kings
torture rides on funny wheels
spring's anthem the pattern melds

Magpie Bridge.

7. for the red orc

that fell · turquoise chess-pieces
wry silken corridors cross
recross in the hollow night

spooks shunted on sunken rails
we sang full dark as if stoned
song perishing · dread lungfish

whose whistle slides into smoke
alongside such fossicking
as must end in plummet-dwine

or absolute vantage where
one's guess is pathetic loss
relict keldspar · wish list shades

curveball against foggiest choice
no fun in annulled projects
whose fracking blowback shudders

Australian iron outlaw.

6. amateur go

a deafening leopard-skin
Wharfinger special but lock
cut losses bled already

out of swift pentacle-goaf
we drag darg's combat Facebook
Ardbeguine dogsled crumbled

a will worthless Ixion's
snapshotsky gray-olive lift
a drumming dream upholds · throng

yclad in lies · halogen
bulb-reft · intersectional
the gift · the blind limberger

sidewalk march of coffinward
& numb regret · wondering
through glass truths through atmospheres

Blood Thor.

5. a game rout

Surfer girl.

warm & auto-crammed · i sit
& let java mesh into
each thought quebrith-lofting sense

& shut out ferrous oxides
that wrack my brain fangled bright
no esters divested roll

a silhouette still watchful
week off from the online chore
of fronting strangers' missives

who lack only solitude
& threadsuns this hedgelord bore
prolix, cat-plaintive, tonguetied

but doggedly yawping out
resultant code · good luck finding
a pastor Ixtab-friendly

4. at a morgue

our fantasy land we'd flee
these wretched jobs selling crap
destined for landfill early

& thoughtless waste haunted
become a swell somewhere else
Italian town clad in green

yearn yet to know well our own
drab midden as if looked back
at far from now solace served

cold · other eyes delight at
our lamps our glib tap water
this desk orange felt & all

piled with vetust symbol-pods
nor dawn's glimmer gnawing yet
at the eye ventured out there

Yemen coffee.

"We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that means." --Jeff Vandermeer, Borne (2017)

2. aldermastodon

(cassius marcellus coolidge via)

"The wind-stained willows of Acheron." --Sandra Hochman

now at the point madness sings
now where the pale western sky
persists from sheer inertia

a promise of bottleneck
isthmus lighthouse punctuates
throng raddled a fastness turned

caress. A foretelling of war,
ruination; think: we make
& all this because we'd hold

to what we had uttered wrong
the land under strangling ices
& thestered with smelly fumes

existence chased without looth
a somber waking called hemlick
writes nothing where something spoke

By the time I get to Phoenix.

1. i fought the lawn, and the lawn won

we had nothing natural
save weather & bedlamites
amidst such arid dreamscapes

i thought i could fall upwards
enough to have uttered sense
gray bangles on wax zither

the rest just confession of
no critique worth shishkabob
& faltering modernist

s chump change blasts mulletship
yardang caravan creeping
rust weaponry death dolling

Mephisto wurst sick passage
car manejando vision
for us improval begins

Anzaldua.

"Everybody seemed to have seen Angels but me." --Robert Trammell