John Pursch- Three Poems

Soon Enough to Seem

Sons of barroom

hearse mechanics

keep tomorrow in

definitive mutation,

sworn to sucrose solidarity,

packing copacetic Cinderellas

in stormy licensed glare

of starlight hover.

Futuristic megaphones

implore extended formal

dreams to dirty preening

mollycoddling twins of

silent ship precipitation,

spinning fellowship and

rhetoric and soon-to-seem

somnambulance.

A rusty track descends,

supper inching all the

placid lifelong query deans

to lopped compelling violence,

slumped in flowering ordeals.

Timed Illusory Compulsion

Clearing cows from

cobweb lookalikes,

pumping fills the starkly

lipid factor olio with

potpourri cadaver ice,

propeller wheeze bedraggled

into soupy porthole carriers

of Pompei circumstance refusal,

cloned to ashen dictionaries.

Accumulating mightily

in equidistant vintner halls

of cloudy karmic decibels,

carousing lemmings

wish for equanimity,

adding animated shins

to preppy volitional carping,

hummed glacially

in slow suburban dunes

of sugar pan defibrillation.

Whatever Joy Foretells

Slowly yellow shapes conduct

reverberating vestiges of

isomorphic mammaries

in memorized abhorrent ice,

epiphanies told aimlessly

to valid alabaster mansion

earwax grammar

mathematicians.

Pulled from reenactment freeze,

the Muni skulks in breathless

pokey wall clock abnegation,

scoffs at supposition guilt,

and burps a gustatory hug,

crumbling breadbox sorters

with aligned cessation.

Scanned colluding shins

brace for bruised emetics,

half-lives dedicating shale

to unclear ankle chaw,

spotting crowned rectories

of impugned carriers.

Faintly grotesque caterers

imbue a failing isthmus,

withering to dreadnought

swine before the ponies

gamble on temporary

sweetness.

Cars guffaw in

live organic esters,

treating bistro bunkies

to enamoured elk,

retorting with whatever

joy foretells. 

John Pursch lives in Tucson, Arizona. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net and has appeared in many literary journals. A collection of his poetry, Intunesia, is available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/whiteskybooks. Check out his experimental lit-rap video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33aUs7obVc. He’s @johnpursch on Twitter and john.pursch on Facebook.