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Four Poems...
Constellations at the End of Proximity
Dexterous half-brother of a genre
creeping dehydrated lemon teeth
speaking reactive landscape button
threatens a trunk with fleas
vapid testicles manipulate cleavers
deriving inabilities from nymphs
ululated against adapted witness
suggestion of a linked cave
stolen nuptial water box
combing wooden erotic quiver
thus higher than complicit atmosphere
equally obvious as earthy
sullen see-through kidney dance
squeezing vignettes through arms
shocking barren pundit grin
always adaptive to green dynamics
pathetic yet tentatively divine
river producing collapsed hyacinth
craving disassociation rippling
heir to fiery incidents
destructive paradox slips on banana peel
imitative aggression burns an emblem
donning bird rather than snake
shouldered bristling tawny force
an eagle throat connects topology
presenting tangles connoting force
not a summary nor a vice versa.
Vaudeville Grotesque
Forthcoming bathtub annihilating planetarium
megaphone burst of plague that elongates larynx
passing grated lice through contemporary art simulator
dressed to prove a garter belt invisible
latched to grasshopper toe
shoring flood prone insect gash against my fort
but shadow dancing jitterbugging halo feast
beneath my twirling cummerbund bladder
squawking in frenetic coded linguistic grapes
timed to a marathon of typesetting
last position masked to teach a surgeon how to slump
however I that wanders algae farms
built a fjord without mosquito net tail
cooling Pandora’s Box stuffed in couch
I prance a potato into my storage compass
grazing half-digested coat of gleeful mirage
sawed to meet the position of a crab
melted helium face stretched to a pinpoint
mimicking my cold compress temple pimple
drifting past spools drunk on schisms
hanging from mouthpiece clothesline
cinched at waste of space proverbial yawn
my breath a box I keep for exposed buttocks
then remedy with a kiss like a munitions plant.
Plunging into Escape Corpse
Premeditated drive devoid against filicide
suggestions imitate an essay cycle
attempted behaviors justified crimes
lock out the tongue
performance as cruel and lucid:
“Strap tuba to wit’s end
and bring back each missed step.”
Along the spiky crevices
lust tells human disease
as many jokes as actions
can illuminate with sheers.
Autonomous episodes of reality
forces matters on skiing industries
brought though never explored
driving abusive rational discourse
having shoved chronological scales
into modern conceptions of goals.
Ranging from vivid to defined
all fluidity strikes weakened grandeur:
“Attacks of boars are nouns
presumably hot and shattered
then threatened as a tree.”
Met referred and ceased
torn apart intrusive.
Deity wounds intoxication
formation nullified victory.
Intertexts cut up and smoked
clinging to allusive delicate limbs.
Roving frenzy consciously mentions
reading stepmother a mental cliff
as an archetype permeating wicked oracle
mastering orchestral bomb squad
asking a harmless malicious consternation:
“Drowned sword in
palace of swoons
learned its fate
despite resurrection.”
Starving Telephones
A jury of shrunken heads
plays their bowtie aquariums
with fists meandering as earthquakes
last among elusive piano captives
nursed before gloomy spiked finds
analyzed under microscopic staples
Last moon craters cheese substance
flung kite like through oozing wreaths
promised kingdom for ventriloquist wasp
between wart and crown a choice evolves
snapped though lessened beneath a bulletin
Oh bullet that spins a heartthrob
seeking chained pulverizing spite
nearer to rotund dumpster stoop
for whomever Queen Quack eviscerates
another encyclopedic cataclysm jumps
Poor though perish as a clock
all masquerading dock hands entwine
garden of Cervantes mist volcanoes
less a punishment than a spoon
readjusted tuning cancer mechanism
So fast the quilted lung appears
without benefit of a salmon foot
to sprinkle webs of horn-rimmed scars
over topsy-turvy umbrella slanted roofs
baffled ribbon bald as a monkey’s skull.
Bio:
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books automatic message (Free Lines Press), combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, M58, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Coven, Scud, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com