brain goes gherkin

elohim broadcast softwear signals travel between suns
Ozeki east ice ring system girds the loins
wet dream hitler's brain goes gherkin in the pickle jar
yo semite sam why don't you gin up this durn wall
chew the terebinth twig grow wings and foresight eyes

try looking down her front the stars already gone
racing daybreak twenty tailors thread the hill in place
a church's one foundation garment

spill out your doors o house of the latterday serpents
amadeus 2.0 fileshorn
death is life and near is far on the blue guitar
special on martyr chops worn wholly
my body in disrepair hang it over the back of the chair

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Richard Magahiz has a day job working with computers, originally as a physicist but more recently as a software engineer. When it comes to music, food, or books his tastes are both eclectic and idiosyncratic. He spent a long time on the East Coast of the US but has come back to his native state of California. His work has appeared online at Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Failed Haiku, Live Encounters Poetry, Danse Macabre, otoliths, bones, and Eye to the Telescope. His website is at https://zeroatthebone.us/.

John W. Sexton lives in the Republic of Ireland. His seventh poetry collection, Visions at Templeglantine, was published by Revival Press in 2020. A chapbook of surrealist poetry, Inverted Night, came out from Survision Books in 2019. Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. His poem "The Green Owl" was awarded the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007 for best single poem, and in that same year he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.