"Nickel-and-Diming the Paradigm," "Paying Forward on Credit," and "Seekers Up Against Finding"

Nickel-and-Diming the Paradigm

shaded partnership
for a blender feast soaring

   analgesic drift
   posing flagrant transit slog

   prepositional volcano
talons through cooler fibers

   will ravage

   the pleasured custodian
ghosting empty lieutenants

   in dangles
   not raised

   to gout simulacrum

   buyer as encroachment portfolio
contusion and diction circumference
   claiming suede their silence docket

   bookmarks wherever stagnant

   threaten apoplectic grappling
through ravenous occlusions
   turning condiment saturation

   to soot
the beveled radish threader
in lingo
near readerships

   below the lecturing
   taunts aching amenities

*

cultural plague
stolen playboys posing
their bearded
derision

   cartons blown
   fin cradles shored
   rarity vacant

   linger like a campground eternity

   renewed
frailty luggage burst
new disjunction

   a decade among
admonished remedial tomcats

   to shore a failed matriarchy

   against a nominal placenta

Paying Forward on Credit

dominion hurlers
arch their shaking asphalt
grudging
   derelict dismay

   its patent smear
   breaking
an aching placebo

before the crust shift
shook the lantern patterns loose
from shadow shaping

   swollen clusters
   black and blended over concrete

   looming
   a slow play
   flickers a hand out

clutching a curve
of concrete fragment
jagged
past the palm

   dripping red wake

   for
   a future
to follow

   the shadows ahead of itself

Seekers Up Against Finding

slipping the shroud
for a heifer’s vessel
no firework venture

   ladled

   the firmament percolator

   burst a decade

   under a forage boardwalk

   hood dry forehead
rummaging plague
clawing across will

   prepositional ingredient

   bent mercy beveled
envelopes spur drifts
searing

   scapula bashes

   *

a statuette
in slowly bleached
downpour

   milkmen a memento
   hulk grow enormous
   bushel prepositional

   to a vessel
   more than ergonomic

eyebrows toward the grammar violinist

   looming

   conversational plectrum preserved

   *

the cornet heath
pulled on its invective
in jumpsuits
   a cadre aspirates

   upset
grim
stubbled

   his verve in fail gabardine

when the eyewash neon
learned repentance in foreground packeting

   the eyebrows
ration a nominal will ingredient

   across weary
grocer loaves

   to the salvation lender