Tidal Pterodactyls

by John Pursch


This solid peppercorn clambers down and parries sloshed yet knowable cringe of capped inhabitants of tiniest sand statuary; ever scenic, sag to ossuary spume, to axial sciatica, swan gyration flurry wince of coiled but charismatic scone selection, to swivel chair in cucumber hammock, swapped for wigged informants.

“Sow mangy? Switch skins? Swath of pocked armbands, south of tuner, tipped to ontic tower?” exclaimed, inquired, atypical showman hung a snowflake chant frond swelling pet tallish crocodile tails, snapping yeasty vest, sportive and mouthy, cropping furor’s berry nest.

“Dare sways a known queue, embellished shoe, a polished town tornado boom, atomic squeeze of leggy automatic swoon,” emerges germinating Herman of Hermetic Closer, cost-infected facts to posters of a Delphic votive corridor, supping down in tendril keys.

“Mocha troglobitic choir, oh ya shoulda spleen one off or mired ouch pie in slinging sure, flavored awning hover squint, but perspectival phase of eenie-take-out spoofing slay; Tupperware gecko or salty tern or malted schooner waveform name in pointillistic courtyard game of passé posse pump-alike or wing-a-lung repealing vestibule or sway bar crown surround the Swampy Liver, afar akin anew ablur a tungsten tourniquet on kumquat eyes.”

“Showy pair and theoretically sad, verbally tutelage,” came the mistress Ova Shaven Seas, who mastered seizure of culled-in-tender servitude to servant’s masquerade majestic, plopped to destitute of detritus to tidal pterodactyls; dockyard songs of lorries, amplitudinous octogenarians, oxygen chunkers, clinker chiropodists, calumniators going AWOL; amidships ambulating through hemp fronds, queenly isthmus feather pompadour clotting into country stew.”

Switch character gouda coulda shoulder wounded sweater watchdog? Pimpernel Palooka Paulo, proctological documentarian, flexed strategic thaw of harpsichord in square dance question lark.

A splurge, a smudge, a quirk of javelina in Susquehanna Sassafras, public bubble-crop silence, coded maze to motorcade, interred mutation tumbleweed, chalky-faced to faded mumble ump, scalding thirty strike against remonstrating gung-ho din, ginseng dance, tiny tambourine enhanced by foveating feast in forest hat edition seer.

Octopi in Stairwell

by John Pursch

Squeegee squawk invigilator, pond to pounded orator, catwalk slink to origin of plastic impresario, fencing flank or phlogiston in soup parolee discotheque or tonic asp atonal bridge, capped with open apiary. Iliac beneath emergent siren, screaming valence vitriol in anvil of an earwig heresy.

How clams come to, insensate yet irregular, stumblebum umbilical secreting caricatures of shovels used in dowsing or shallow quay parrying for cretins who sired the once ambivalent flying porpoise, capitalizing on a missing city.

Aft ewe shill fallow knee, eye slake hit data hall oven helluva hullabaloo and Quonset clue. Weight! This Justinian: the seasoned have begone, spelunker; bygone blowgun spattering a dispatched fellow gypsy with gypsum bullets, pallets of impropriety, umpires on pyloric release from eighteen bottles of myrrh.

Rhythmic ecliptic hasp earned its egress, tea shaken seizure, muffled pie the Cattle of Dimly Lit Daisies, chained to gathering tundra, churning upper collars, addled plaque to backyard shoals climbing stray sandbars. Do eyes reflect the scans of amity in seamless clocks, or treetop infamy of families aflame in tightrope alacrity?

Cinders view a furtive time, curling swans, carloads of leggy agronomists issuing hands. Hems hold glitzy counterfeits, sending hoodlums down empathic ambits. Chasms spawn eclectic vacuum, anthropological giddiness, screwhead octopi in stairwell.

Blue-Hot City

by John Pursch

Crossing seventy-seven seas, the good chip off the holy blockhead blocks for Carbuncle Slammy, to be sure and short and unleavened breadboard but completed by carbon, cordoning off and on and conjunctivitis be damned, bedaubed, be rent asunder to asymptotic symptomatic astigmatic strobe light spelunking hex in speedy pedestrian exhibition.

Heave, sigh, heavenly ho-hoe-toe to sidecar swollen so-and-so, the merest fame of topiary ethical hoot owl from tumors east of Knicker Pocket or Aqua Towel Yenta, self-shamed Manny O’Painian bungle internecine ganglion, changeling jangle Jumbo Chet, boldly coned off by pasty-topped mountains on a flashy fleshy tanned and tawdry buxom bottomless pontoon spit and eighty-handed bridge and buttress overlooking a figurine; satrap situation dish, crawfish chimera, mechanical munitions farm, fan of manacled animal spurts.

Slung participle to cloned bezoars, seaborne blubber, plastic flak and looking back to parking lot trysts with soldered holster travesties about a cooling flake of snow-white punk in sea to hiding smitten easy stream of canned innocence, animated impish youth inventing pawned lucubration.

Who knew, who cared for shaven lads and lassies in a side-saddling escapade extravagance, wading out to Muffled Gecko Itchy Coke, conspiratorial cries of “Goal goal goal goal goal goal!!!” at savory plausibly deniable pregnancy, pardoned at the clearest shot he chutes he scours he chutney shouts he curses soft-core meltdowns into sighing screams, ecstatic antimony auctioned off and honeysuckle under delectably auspicious dungarees?”

“Thawed ewe Scot my otter tare, dint cha-cha-cha?” swigged Mastodonald Ox Prepario, Lux Imperator of tanned tousled timbre-thumping piebald pelters, smelting smallish oar box casters cinder clocked by Your Nuke Naked lucidity at portly sours, a shipboard secondhand fin parade to parts asea alee abridged of shallow worlds. Concatenations abut in clear fallow scholar’s fame, thundering slapdash chrome in winks at flown mule hypostatic hip-chuggers.

“Swat pretty birds ye salve, sway how dear in slowed caloric Humidor of scantily plaid rhododendron tinge, to frosted speck insecticide, ablution quail predominance, perforce imputed sanctity of your old pestilent repine!”