8.3.24

Three Poems by Joshua Martin

impactful detention clutter

 

aggravated barcode utilities

common acquired runoff

 

             managerial slope

             hit ground shovel

                           targets,

                  whims,

        tangents

 

contracted crypto funnels

designing fractional stones

 

                                  ranking

                                  mannequin

                                  ramblings

             , twisted source

               of feeling weathered :

 

an ounce

removed

at dawn,

 

           spared mandated

           samples,

 

cores scream sublimity

engage floating viscera 

 

 

 

swash, an application hinge

 

decorate nightshirt as a wigwam

splicing onion ceiling like traffic jams

when panned vibration benches

reverse October spelling bee mustards

 

                CRACK’D! fume

                allowable ancient

                creaking  ,  mixed

                metaphorical mashing

/ ‘each decade reverses itself

   until B-movies engulf phantoms’ / - - -

 

                           whelp dumb [numb]

                           the naked pottery as

                           ornate as a marquee

                           fin    . . .    curlicued

                           sidewalk     chirping

                           metro     . . .

 

walking the vibraphone carpets

as chimney groupings flush

sagging sagas into lumpy fridges

hence a ghostly disappearing pouch

 

          [tower box crunch]

/                  crook’d music store

                   monsoon - - - TIMBER

                                                     / - - -

 

cardboard chestnut st. sweater

         , sands dupe blueprints ,

urinal harmonic straining spots - - -

 

     awesome window sprite

     carry flashing molten spaghetti [sunk]

     eating melancholy sleeves

     wearing willy-nilly elbows - - -

 

glistening [ye] driest whatever hoops

radiating lonesome perversion coffers

simple pitching the thighs spurt haze

tho borrowed nostril without a snow

 

              OOZE! the craning

          NeCk tattoo semester

          beaming peppermint

          a saucepan mystery

          higher than caricature

                  , reminded ,

                    a martyr

                    howling

                       beep-beep-beep-beep-beep

 

 

projected half-toned wheels screeching

 

bladder stanzas & frostbitten microwaves

regaling coat racks with knife throwing

not w/o inventory vistas appearing

               Near A Defrocked Television

   [WHIPLASH!!!!!!!!!!]

        , daylight igloo thermal wishin’ well,

. Night school

                    nailfile trapeze artist

                    wandering vanilla steppes

                    wearing exterior punchbowls:

   DUST

         or THE SHADOW OF VAMPIRIC

                                 MANEUVERS   . . .

 

ichthyologists promise documentary pleasures

charging psychotic SUVs with genocide

                     , In

                       the MeanTime,

        killer bad breath crooks

        run errands in soup cans

                            \ drenched! /, ,

            flour PoureD

            evenly In/To

            masquerade ball & chain

                      gymnasium          . . .

 

swamp frolic noontime basking welts

trapped SCUBA roadkill memorials

bombarding heated eyebrow shampoo

                       Craving Brain Fart Membranes  

    > mistrusted gazebo breeze <

                                         , facts

              defend madness , , skirt

supper club phonies

brimming island webs

                          : Water Hole Fatigue

              flung  [!],

                                preserving doorknob

                                refrigerated thyroid . . .

 

liberty blushed ticking timebomb

vowing to perfect the skidding

a lampshade makes from

                                        O O Z E - - -

 

     whisper grove onion boil

     simpering gnome turning

     chorus of youngsters trip

     fantastic bobbing for apples - - -

 

                     groups.

Groping & frenzied x-ray diatribes

                               [it careens daffodil

                                bank robber],

            whiff & dismantle 

 

 

Joshua Martin