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.