9.10.25

Two Poems by Joshua Martin

Devoted Miscommunication Eras

 

folding truckloads damper vanguard fortresses

to which / to warn / to obscure framing device:

           don’t look, memento, starry-eyed beatnik

           passing toaster oven marmalade projectiles / >

an acoustic panel praying mantis defibrillator torch 

blossoming nearest an unhappy sewer dweller hipster

rocking back-and-forth warbled enchilada sensor

fuzzy as a cadaver bike pedal missionary skirt

/ < . . . . .

              foremost among the insecticide war machine

              the hallelujah manias sewing mouths shut

              while it pushed sounds into a cracking lamp

              all singing the most cherished choking outrage

. . . . . ,

outside agitation rendering milking cows perverse

at least in angelic squirming bassline eruptions

drooping like snake skin in a manmade headache scarf

                                                 . . . . . , >

                         plunge /

                         the sinkhole envelopes

                         ugliest cut-off jean shorts

, hung from bathroom wall /

                                 largely uneventful (as a

                                                                lung),

of the living territories,

our suds prevent conversations:

                                           dwell, upon a device,

                                           merrily absconding with 

                                           turntable electroshock

                                                             therapy

                                                             vines <<<<< . . . . .

\ elongated wisps reinforcing stubbed toes

carrying the doppler effect oceanic tornadoes

laser focused as a foodie wound

                                                 \ . . . . . ,

                        what made the waiting room stuffy?

the taxidermist swooning

rooting around in clay scabs

tipping the tripled hot fudge

of uneven totality ravaging

unmasked for strategic verses    . . . . .

                                  average beating beeps

                                  hassling cinder blocks . . . . .

      loaf, the tumbling watermelon fever,

      misguided as an endive marshmallow

      and folding up beneath tooth decay > > >

> > :

the heartless unpacking of a seashell vicar

pleading with a peeled purchasing system

which concedes, at its core, to be unwavering

                                                         . . . . . ,

           \ suckling and buried and wounded / . . . . .

all unwanted rage suddenly dissolving

                                                             . . . . . ,

                  grooving bandits yawning infinity

                  thoroughly screaming at giant peas

                  pardoned and selfish and ordinary

. . . . . ,

           >>>>>

\ surgical forums of whining sheets

  bookended by crepuscular fumes

  less synonymous than disengaged \ <<<<<

                                                              . . . . . ,

                        nothing prepared a dome

                        for the sinking peephole endeavors

                        crusted over like opera glasses

                        weaving abandoned mosquitos

                        into a still untraceable utopia



Destructive Mobile Recession Puddings

 

quixotic eel scenarios at dawn

following ventured raincoat shadows

thoroughly propelling tomato childhoods

 

         household reindeer

hanging from the supper table raffle tickets

                   screaming bloody

                   vignettes

 

each genre specific episode of screaming

releases mustard gas giraffe headbands

onto a seemingly uninterruptable jean jacket

filled with duck-billed milkshake innuendoes

 

                          painted

           fuel-injected nostrils spraying

           latitudinal unfortunate leprosy

           upon regrettable tidal depots

 

wrist tattoo withering toothpick

wallowing juniper softening hiss

into ordinary grotesque rain chimes

 

                                 bellowing

                    the proof is in the sinking

                    dangling hoof instrumental

                    woof-woof-woofing dainty

                    mellow yellow roundtables

 

controlled jangle textual windmills

revealing convoluted coffee stains

abandoned near combustible inks

straining garrulous barcode mugs



Joshua Martin