Five Poems by Joshua Martin

 

Foundational Models Distill Facial Hyperbole

 

Neological spermatozoa inundating weather vane

where the epidemic ponders the functional seizures

          minted (illegally) as a hand (sewn)

          shouted tho clinging blameful assets

                          : each a prime crude tycoon

                [tyrannical dust certified] : stiller

      than gums clearly longer than a crosswalk.

By virtue of stomped subway cars

                                            lids pay to rebuild gallows

      belly button a surgical scar of marketing

                                    (data) rama (llama) ding (ing)

                                    occupation of a leather recycle bin

                         shattered against b

                                                     a

                                                     rnacle ribbons. Regimental

avoidance conjures eventual oyster shell

    : haven an oven : [once a house removed a solid

                                  it can develop myopia until it

                                                                  sinks] : fixated

                                             projectile                      scuba

                                    dugout             dingy                 service

                       station :

             [if a plausible field were to feed

              culminating in the brutality of language] : .

Model engineers of toxic probations

misbehaving behind a virtual scalpel

sooner trapped than a startup power outage

dialled tho defeated tho hallucinogenic as a parrot

the boom aimed admitted appropriated rejected.

 

 

Curiously Huddled

 

start to peel fire extinguisher

corrupted in addition to bulging photographs

left a rare appearance underneath dockyards,

                          an orphanage of holiday meat,

                          increasingly unveiled

                                                 As SeRiOuS,,,

forceful personality quipped:::

        “stern but stoic & tomorrow comments

          into an advisor claiming satisfaction

          without being slaughtered or eaten.”

 

Hold massages dedication

to a royal wedding household

                                        childhood model <<<<

                              being clocked by

                              BaRkInG DoG <<<<.

 

Fainting outside a decorated suggestion,

crashing another devastating castle

                                                   IN Sand,

                                           IN a HiLl, alone

                     YeT not

             without slippers.

 

 

tall change building fault

 

down that lecture tyrant of debris

               standing plain like clerk

               abrupt in knife stance.

 

      iron clad hair,

      a         Part     or    tattered

                      wing          PaPeR - - -

            BaRe,

 

you knew that naming round thoughts

could only ever draw the crowd toward curtsy.

 

                                                Well,

                                      FINE    ,   less well-crafted

                     , another

                       you imagines trailing

                       nostrils,

                              in onomatopoeia ---

           the art of DENIAL,

     self like in the torch ---

                                       touching.

 

              [swaying tourniquet:

                                          oven of CLASS,

                               spin of toilet haiku::

          a housing project

          mesmerizing cookie

                       & sharp

                       banter

                reveals a thyroid cluster tissue].

   must   /   at most   /   after spring confuses

   you   /   to death   /   a dent   / that onslaught

of your worried trees.

 

 

Hit Parade Syndrome

 

preserve my spine

& snide in grinning

potato skin cloud

bursts.

         addition of

         equidistant

         standards

         foggy like

         a tablet.

 

  but,

cursive as a gopher,

             relish dropping

             soda fountain

             representations.

                      w/in &

                      w/o &

             pointedly a

             DEMO. denied,

phosphorous as a

cushioned chair,

                    tho

        brightly & never

        reserved for an-

        other sense of

        fashion.

 

 

swinging / twitching

 

Start

     adding up

          SPRAY paint

: a chipped

  graph

      dripped in

      bits of

      phone :

 

Free ill sample

weatherized vapor

happenstance

 

          GrEEt

      polka    bucket

:

pollination

assassin

crushing

argyle

pontoon

            :

 

Livid muzzle

in a sleeping bag

 

Wedding cheese

making giggling sounds

 

Pleasures of hammocks

listening outside the

bEEr H a L L s  w i t h

o u t        reaction

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books automatic message (Free Lines Press), combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, M58, Don’t Submit!, BlazeVOX, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, Nauseated Drive, and experiential-experimental-literature. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com