Saturday 11 November 2023

Four Poems by Joshua Martin

 



Geological Accommodation Process

 

                     of the analogy,

shared sentient flatlands discuss attempted metaphysical squares

much bigger than skillfully closed accounts internally frag-

mented, never disguised, skillful alienation conclusions

and concussions.

                     therefore - - - closeness, frugal, generalized - - -

      confessed vulnerable intricate dereliction : : : Space : : :

Benign : : : ‘Which grace traditionally narrates perfected in-

completeness?’ : : : Union : : : Doctrine : : : Human

possessions,

             dropping Puzzle,

                               parodying distance

                 b/t                  Personifications,

double-minded distance sharing cited torture.

      orthodox [limited],

                                   lonely circumstances

           / [An Opening Line w/o Inquiry] \,

                         brevity divided against earlier

incarnations           - - -      serious,    

                     as itself - - -          revealing external

       weakening momentarily accused. wrongly,

deluded,

            united in putative exhaust

    [separate]  /  [shared]  /  [mutual]  /

closer distressed water gushes valley,

                    Turned to Perplexing

                            Repudiation,

wilderness rejecting joyous suffering shield,

                                                 myriad torsos suppose,

          hopeless source of supposition,

                                magnanimous torrents, aided,

withdrawn,

              central pace questioning birthday storage

                       [facility] , [among beasts] ,

the dwelling place of cysts

                           collapsing incurious supposed,

     gerrymandered disappointments.

 

 

Stoic Tandem Creating Waves

 

duck,

    the strategic bubbles:

              A RENDEZVOUS,

                            majority bare life

reduced to lamented material starvation. wisp,

                                     the last perspective speech

: [an observational opinion] piercing together peaks

                   Buried Beneath Dynamite - - - sorrow

                                                                     taught

                                                                     cookie - - -

counterfactual stones. world piranha,

            the floodgates,

                             stop bigger crops & focused

                                          scenario aftermath,

       terrestrial chaos. prototype. unnamed adjectives.

passionate bones [customized] , [cosmology] . an origin

                                                          spying,

                                   approximate appearance,

                                                                  extreme,

indistinct legalities & taken For Granted zone of Labor.

         tree orifice Fate. ancient lobster lightning rod

                          before designated

                                                   theories.

 

 

Stump, then Stunned, As a Horse Relents

 

Righteous goblin squaring off between sinks

filled before withering graphic insignia,

                                 sailing promenade robotics

                                 peacefully undulating mirrored,

                                 spunky until ending ascertained

                                 flag football militaristic perverts.

 

     Glassy & handsome swatting cavaliers

     accumulating opened mosquito brashness.

 

           [Dis]connected shivering platitudes,

wander feathered imminent domain passages,

                                                    forlorn / forgetful /

                                         dressed like a golf instructor

                                         bleeding dictionary water balloons.

 

              Sought. Dunked. Snot. Sludge. Because skin

relaunches as elastic aquariums

breathless until caustic bonfires

drift into weary carburetor beaches. Open! Takeout food

                                         stuffs rented, nearer,

                                         a public thrust gently curves,

                    & then buries operatic technologies

                    unless grizzly hinges outgrow their use.

 

Dropped

shells.   Both below average sinks

             entrap whimsical apocalyptic

                                     scenes. Gloomy,

                                                       insanity,

                          relentless media briefcase propaganda.

 

Timed. Up[ward], the outsized

                                marker sprays

                                wild generic mutual

                                                         mutilations:

        MUTINY!

 

 

Sheltered Quotation Tribute

 

irk lid canvas oasis kite

palette toppled registered chocolate

melted buttery approximate otherwise

frighteningly muffled hi-fi bedrock

tubed streetlamp lily pad dumpsters

 

               soft cryptic cloudy fertility

               lullaby inhalation etchings

               cry palm cheeky stomachs

               deafening toothy werewolf

 

                          stuffed smog

                          trigger bubblegum

 

troll happening principal scrambling

debated stork pounding ceremonies

deathly auto lip service nincompoop

frothy spray tan beleaguered romping

 

                                     truth trusting locality

                                     hopscotch bear kidnapping

 

       demeanor

       wheelbarrow

       phonetic immunization

                             underwater scrimmage

                             irrelevant frying pan

                             interior funnel crop

 

headbanging aftertaste of a mundane ostrich

disharmonious bedbug psychic overkill

good & done & recharging humpty-dumpty blocks      

 

                                                   flecks of sleeves

                               the subsequent hole counterattacks 

                                                          composed padlock

a paranoia continually obtuse.

 


 

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 peeping sardine fumes (RANGER Press), [Ruptured] >> Schematic <<  MAZES (Sweat Drenched Press), destructive paradox slips on banana peel (Cajun Mutt Press), and Dance of Resistance Brainwaves (C22 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 

 

 

 


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