Five Poems by Joshua Martin

Productive Sticking Point

 

airball siren herding erasers

yarn alarm squid handlebars

vaporized scolding paragons

 

             programmed fists

             sprinkled muscle

 

                     mimic sword battle

                     iron fastened mouse

                     drooping strip poker

 

gaming systematic jailbird salads

bowl upon bowl of grapefruit essence

dressed stormy feathered lagoons

 

     ouch festival party gazing

           wither                   sawblade

                  certain                 handkerchief

garden                                         vegetative

                         squirrel

 

        entitled luminous empathy

        empathetically denied scoop drain

 

 

Delayed terrarium Fix

 

giving cusps crank crumbs

             / Night Nods Deficient Chemistry \

                                          (test Tube peel Shred) :

 

        lacklustre cathedral

                   a transcript exposed to virus:

 

somewhere

chlorine unlaced soluble violent threads

                        [frontier],[renown],[heat],[it

               swells licking

               affectionate envelopes] - - - brain damaged

                                                            outline - - -

 

hands fall asleep as a truckload

revolted thawing vertigo beehive

                                beholden polka-dotted classics :

 

         canyon blank facing circumstantial shotgun

         unusual waterfall contaminated stopper :

 

(chastened nouns swallowed verbatim

                                     ;static telescopes;

                                            languid milkshake

                                            bobbing for schemes) - - -

 

      chromatic snare

      arrived as sharpened

 

 

Conclusive Gears

 

swing set tuna material utensil

fourth sleeve rendezvous nano

a removal tarries a deduced quenching

                    injected zeroes speechless

 

     deduce slickened audience bribery

     though-word-wheel-likely-colliding :

 

blanched atmospherics smack

                                 clockface anaemia :

 

             Short Notice animated crescendo

             loose chocolate balmy stadiums:

 

                                              All vessels

 

                   bluffed retreat

                   stool sample

                               concrete quantity

 

Runaway reproductive skin

demolition quarantine

clanging colossal sailor soup

 

          ; Swim

            without

            shelves ;      out of context

                                motivational water

 

whip

      | chain-linked fence |

 

                     dude blind spot duality

                     singularity achieving niche :

 

                         congregation inverse brittle

                         hibernation success story

 

                                  gristle parchment :

 

a freshly mown keychain

 

 

adjusted eggshell momentum

 

we tied the loosening festivals in disguise

          WC Fields water designed feature wallet

 

    milquetoast Armageddon fair weather punching bags

    slicing Albuquerque borderline tribute to paradigms

 

              NiGhT sweating NuRsE

 

Repeating Gloves without Sleeves

 

    :   (if a cannon be a subplot

         reading spilling wheels

                                       but poured spelling

                                       wishing well grief) :

 

              wishy-washy toilet afternoon

              splurge passing fancy touchdowns

 

> fumigations begin at home < ! ! ! ! !

 

                         playground adjustments nervous

                         willing combatant snoozing

                         caried formulated magazine

                                                             shell

 

 

Sailing Spider Lamps

 

ambushed circuit microphone

staring vague civilized manifestoes

 

     bury cornstarch anvils

     housing crisis nightlight

     badly attributed barcodes

 

               \ stumble wrestling cutthroat /

 

halo neighbourhood record sleeves

wildlife usurping nuclear warts

soundwaves gesture tombstones

 

                               | somnambulistic tire |

                     | weary healthcare beverage stream |

                                         | powdered TNT wig |

 

((((( ‘who is this guttersnipe sinking into the sniper’s lair?’ )))))

 

             / , carrying torn libido spools , \

 

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Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books Dance of Resistance Brainwaves (C22 Press), SCHISMS (C22 Press Open Editions), laminated tongue in aspic (Alien Buddha Press) and automatic message (Free Lines Press). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, Synapse, Version (9), Don’t Submit!, BlazeVOX, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and experiential-experimental-literature. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com