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Three Poems
by Jonathan Doherty


The Crossbones Are Comatose
 
The crossbones are comatose,
the river flows clockwise.  Paranoid,
calibrate with the parterre.
 
There’s a Spaghetti inquest,
the exodus and spleen impose
the linkboys and autotypes.
 
Integrate the nursery they say,
the wood sorrel’s a disdainful loafer,
a somatic revue.
 
Trammel the inscriptive,
Vedanta dogfish of the ovular
and these scabrous prescriptions.
 
Eldritch is larcenous,
teems when genocide possess,
presuming it’s a menorah.  


Mailman Is Hysteric
 
Mailman is hysteric.
Scrubwoman at the gala exceeded
the panama Hectare.
 
Settlers apostatize,
the ulna cowries filigree,
kingbolt foxily.
 
Resuscitate.
Phenyl the charnel clop
and the airspace canniness.
 
Avoidance will reissue
the burly roaring.  Decontrol,
plasterboard skier.
 
My position is thankful,
is asclepiad fibro.
Wintriness joyful.


Evangelic Disaster

Evangelic disaster,
the pyorrhea vesicle was somber,
bewitchment to be mistrusted.
 
All the airfreight absentees,
the adjunction of neon mansard,
the stringent ascendant.
 
Faultily, a threesome.
Scraggy pluvial cubism
and copartner of the switchback.
 
Paranoid, arduous,
Hausa’s talkative in the morocco.
Desuetude the theologies.
 
Odometer in tandem
with the staccato dewdrop.  Horsefly,
lankiness and erewhile.