[11001 – 11101] & [11201 – 11300] & [14701 - 14800]

John Beckmann

[11001 – 11101]

After the exceptionally wayward
courtship of Fernando & Teresa
marred the commune’s continuity
like a lithe bubble with hazy complacency,
its once conversant nightingales forsook
elated frolic for studious prescription
& underwent credulous trespass.
Now eagles loft to discordant guitar
& mania stamps their blurred yet alluring
halo with perplexing footstep. The
feathered reel & the membrane revels
slap, lending unfavorable awkwardness
to reciprocal despondency—asatirical
impostor seasoned with hoary taint.

[11201 – 11300]

Saintly Osiris accompanies Wizard
on his traverse of infinity, twofold
likelihood adrift upon ferment
immeasurable. Intoxicating gases
bubble, the dreamer sucked in at molten
zenith, the newcomer shuffling &
inarticulate, needing oftentimes
to broker bail. Magnanimous, they blend
above Bologna, an artless crescent that
reflects their spice & smoky nakedness.
Buoyant without jagged pronoun to tease
or enclose, without impure ancestry
advising reparation, they dive from
angular projections into a founding
infidelity graphic with exemplary vibration.

[14701 - 14800]

Unravel this phial, oh warm-hearted
Sappho, of its sprig of vernal drowsiness,
open-mouthed to luscious tidal blues that
vibrate with incandescent quietude,
for Demeter to emissary quarterly
upon her meager barque. Tillage of twos
& cancelled presidents, bedclothes blood-
shot with the nag & squeak of propagate,
drummer at the typewriter of a cleaner
metamorphosis: What foreword defines
such untenable circumcision to probe
the inimical markings of a sacrilegious
& bullying celibacy?

Peter J Grieco is a poet, song writer, musician, former professor, and retired school bus driver from Buffalo. His collection of ekphrastic verse, "The Blind Man's Meal," is available from Finishing Line Press.