Two Poems by John Pursch

Lopped Itches

Aftosa fuses onto postal tongues

in grazed luddite metronomes, 

proffering worm ornery down 

urgent alley mosquito hires, 

cruft hinging oafs to sticky 

crow quips, furled incisively.

 

“Cram estimable fester sheiks 

what felt editorial shape knacks, 

swarthy love astute unfounded milt aware,” 

Penelope grain hoof et tweeze tine bagel 

imitation sawdust comportment squabble.

 

“Yeast, hit’s whiling bullish 

spouts of raisin droop, 

licking floors of oars 

in sunken sequins, 

thwacking bauble tour phlegm!” 

Bunky chastely rasps, knotty 

Venn timing migraine dams 

when enemy hens connive 

toucan a vernal situation 

pomade for three, frowsy 

inter alia waddling, 

emitting lopped itches.

 

 

 

 

Aching Aloud

Heed the titrated otter’s watery tribunal eyes before hive mentality erases the alligators from alluvial mentions of gumption and latitudinal anguish, pressed to varicose booties for playtime deities on nameless skeet coroner sheets of grassy carousels, driven to dribbling by hoarse beatitudes. 

 

Splotches crocheted by gaudy iguanas in seething behest establish additional plumber humps from falling trouser commissary heaters, swearing haughty cisterns of huffy efflorescent teapot feet, scorching tabled integument with surreptitiously placated camshaft bricks, eating audibly. 

 

Proxies intimidate cloaked events from aching aloud, shaving blurred cemeteries at drowning pole slides, kindling idiomatic synchrony for ossified seduction’s glacine semester bonk. 

 

Creaming stoned toenails with femoral lipstick gaggles, punchy slugs elaborate on dappled lancer steeplechase gloom, exposing polio olio in prawn retinue beach laments, soothing musty overboard tire irons before inducted tactile tallies can limp to brunch. 

 

Moody blarings repeal salary haddock in pendant billows below orchestral gymnastic sleet, healing causal shamrocks on eiderdown elastic pleasure suits, munched and rosy. 

 

 

 

 

 

John Pursch lives in Tucson, Arizona. His poetry and fiction has appeared in many literary journals. His most recent book, Intunesia, is available in paperback from White Sky Books at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/whiteskybooks . He's @johnpursch on Twitter and john.pursch on Facebook.