HUGH RILEY TRIBBEY

Hugh Riley Tribbey is an assistant professor of English at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, where he teaches literature and creative writing and responds to the commands of his dachsund and his terrier. His most recent work has appeared in __Flint Hills Review__, __Red River Review___, __The Dream People__, __Xstream__, __Sidereality__, __Muse Apprentice Guild__, and the chapbook anthology __The Best of Dream People Poets__. A chapbook entitled __Juvjula Detours__ has recently been published electronically by xPress(ed). He holds a Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State University. He was born on a cold afternoon on February 13, 1956, in Mooreland, Oklahoma.

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PLOD ACCIDENT

bubbling monkey icon
drowning squawks semiotic pump
lukewarm grim lips ripples trickle
dip drizzle dispersal
octopus chase gazes
hush buries sustain
scarcity stainless indifference
hiss squats sprocket structural portraiture
prefer leafless freckled fuck cut
sunstroke strike unlike forks
hair harden horsehide
surrogate capture pursed induce
masculine bison
genre duty iris
virgins plant tender submerge bag
last outlets
whipped bitter pilfer cling cool Cornish sacrificial
grazing eagle rub explode
moping party pale
cruel bugs shape
sidereal die bouquet greet hide
trim ominous possess
sweating fastened disordered gnaw
elegiac blackness fantasies
snag mounds conjugate dead Hard Times
monuments shape

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LEVERED MIRRORS

Leeward bone views cure! April
quills won't quit, though
new vines involve
awful delays, comes a
charred sorrow. It's a date,
I say, absorbed dunce say
pennies in the pores, Pa's memory
on an appropriate miracle.
Baste in the sauce.
That Mutton , sear
the tone.

[homophonic translation of "Miracles Real Miracles" by Max Jacob]

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SPORTING ARTICLES

Cur of Jesus comes on a timber post
it allays sun shammin'
in tapping enducements din says main
poor computers say past
sun cur rude comes a singin'
flapping flapping
comes a tune pylon rosey a verse
Dew attempts an attempt
ill complains noon, pet drapes dew sated
Quail ill, ewe beau coos March
lilt assists poor she deposes
ate his endorsements
Maize deposits,
sees jury eel yaw
day nuances dances, lay armory
ate boat cues
doddering otter chooses

[Source: "Articles De Sport" by Phillip Soupault. Homophonic translation.]

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Fold-In # 3

The oilfield guy hoards wealth
My demeanor intertexts
Yes sir ties by manipulating
you have to stand author
If you get pure value
I had bad identity lies
into one of terms
falling off wagon of the totality
on crutches place can slip away
supporting himself parodies the gesture
the kid of the withdrawal
biggest pain of withdrawal
Dad wins speaker parodies
rest of the kids "grass" implying
from hands two Wordsworth
repeating his moral utterly bereft
among her fellow romantics
mints on the scallop shell
left script
Insults your diction of these lines

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Fold-In, 021104, #1

his left knee the bed, panting
clamped appearance of a battered
slaps pieces of mica, I slipped
reddening smartly the funnel
the manuals, the wash-room, the bald
equal alacrity a trunk and arm-pits
least show of finished
ordered anything of talcum powder
countenance betray his torso
generously elephant's hide
CRACK! OW! Mara Smoking
pillows, bobs burning up
finds fault no go The room began
SMACK! Sweating, the mattress
pain and wrings almost touching
when the bull's take on all
stifle by burying her bad dream
respectful broken wheeze
THWOCK! end of a gale
Whizz rat hole
poked my gravely
crack across spritz-bath
almost to explode transoms were all open
into roses. SMACK! tertorous cacophony
unfair?" "N-no sir!" of John the locust-eater
dresser her limbs launch out rubber bands
falls humbly that end like pushing
die your fault a drain-pipe
go left a battery