John
Pursch lives in Tucson, Arizona. Twice nominated for Best of the Net,
his work has appeared in many literary journals. A collection of his
poetry, Intunesia, is available at http://www.lulu.com/
Admirable
Chesty Numbnuts
Admirable Chesty Numbnuts,
hermaphroditic sailor of the leavened seas, sashays through streams of finest
seasick youth, from bulkhead bilge to boatswain’s bilious bicuspid, lisping
nautical behind mildly concupiscent smile.
Eight bells are ringing, have rung, and
now go silent. Vibratory haze, electric fragment of salt-conditioned life,
immerses us in ambient noise, twelve feet above the rails. Rows of encapsulated
thunder rumble along, speckling deadwood rodeos with our favorite memories,
spilling lifeblood folios in headstrong impetus to varied circumstance unseen.
A dotted climb, parietal chain, holistic
blend of spurning taint to crested chasm, filling gaunt fishermen with webby
tracks of shipyard dusk and looted storefront glass. Sharks caress the ocean
floor with dorsal avenue invention, peaking often silent there beneath the
graying sea-green slide.
Slipping now before theatrics buried,
glimpsed unconscious bravely stumps for everyday impulsive drift of snowbound
bottled fiction, gated cataclysms, conchs in jubilee destruction, fine serrated
pension hearings, flickered fractal lecture notes, and keynote chapel
doorsteps.
Hatches open, closets ooze eternal
choices, belles resell in periodic gaze to casual gazebo trance to bus stop
bottom-numbing set to wicker basketball saloon to tourist dust frenetic whimsy,
bubbled into threaded skew.
Cushioned cashew sings along with
long-departed urchin feet, sipping cool unfrosted melodies in silent dignity of
golden sweat on sun-soaked isles of carousel erosion meat to tawny beachfront
bassinet in thunderhead exfoliation.
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