Joshua Martin :: Three poems

 

Everything a house overcomes
 
monochrome syllabic grifts
previous bearing chains
chants bespectacled harmonies
beset polytheistic tragedy 

         Naughty,sly,tormented
         depravities hear liberty
/ . /
    Capacity of mucous
    fashions paid ransom
    ,faded murmur a fin
                                  / . / 

[Beating HEART wonders:
                   “Immaculate frenzied
                    excuses teleporting
                    full pitch of $20”
            spelling thought maintains:
                    “Wearied pronouncements
                      shield exhausted aspect
                      affectionate squid stump”
                                                               ]
possessed HUE earthly demand
rose mounting CLUMP of cheek
mosquito arm gathers HeaP
footsteps dry MaSs Sawrmings 

       Panic forks—
Morning scythes—
                            rainless as
                     IT rigid wrecks
intended drowning wreck
                                     (age)                                        

 

 

Gesture disorders pretext
 
blows and bombs collect actions
a PLAGUE! a PLAGUE!
            a plague upon an oscillating sphincter
,,,dressing the beginning void,,,
BOUNCING something as superior
                      as FLESH
                               rot bones:
confrontational instruments
emphasize crowded lectures [
                                               focus
                                       on defunct
                                       defeats];;;;;
attached to TRAMway
                            / disaster marries
                              defenseless achiever
        / danger crucial amalgam of
          FURY = paint exerts
                            rightful features:
                      INvitatioN              ONLY     /
clumsy catalog of preemptive reflex 

 

Illustrated mechanical kind of consideration
 
proverb custodian venture loose
Buster Keaton eyes sparkle slippery
On APPEAL vanguard shrugs obscene
           UP          =          SET
                            buried
                   until strobe STAR
pound,s
          ,ing paper sPraineD
    puppet balls of FOOT
parade [still
                against
         shielded] Glass appear
                                           ,ing
                              ad infinitum<
DeFineD by adjective,,,,,
       betrayed by conjunction
SPIT> easy
                 easy / as
collections point
                         ,ing
             BreeZe Like
before                      statue
         credit       /           TaKinG
junctures inclined to
pencil mustache dent
                                ,ing
subtle restitution cloud
rrrrrrrrrrrroarrrrrrrrrrrr
      beat,
             ing Back flight
[dugout] repulsive BiD
to castigate a shell 

 

 

 

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in The Sparrow's Trombone, Coven, Spontaneous Poetics, Ygdrasil, Expat, Selcouth Station, RASPUTIN, Train, Fugitives & Futurists, Otoliths, M58, Punk Noir Magazine, Beir Bua, and Scud among others. joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com