FOUR POEMS by JOSHUA MARTIN
Lord of lisps
lend once partaking particle
collide a scope
burn ing
crisp butt
HoLe wisps of
pinky
toe
medical practices
of medieval
travelers
reddened
facing
firing squad
w/ so MaNy
dimples
bouncing
speeding
monitor
altogether
thorough
wingback chair LEG
fatherhood
depository
StruGglE invasion
seas mean
mediumistic
loyalists judge
rebellion less
LiP
switching eyewitness
party
Party PARTY
POW WOW WOW in
a new
series flyswatter
provocative electoral
clown.
Notated grizzly curve
track boots carping whipped cream taxonomic
proportional subway car a chair
fumigating laughing spud potato
BuG
,one seldom sprout
spotted sky=
ward = ly
transparent
semi-conscious
statehood
vicious
cyclical
avenue
archbishop ,
HaVe SeWn
To SeW
sOOn toe stretch=
ed ,
briefs handled
care=
less = ly
,soil pinch geared
Up Raz-a-ma-taz Tasmanian
DiRt SeWpt
way = ward
clOUD Taiwanese
sneeze , shades
drawn prison
chaplain BeLLs
pledged
CaN oPeNeR
ballistic umpire ,
guess bIgGeR , Go
awkward , pose
preen= ing
partake
pinnacle
je , je ,
il ,
conceived
able bodied
plumb
DePtHs
jacques colored
wheel
UtMoSt
after= ward
(word??)
HeArD , legendary
beat= ing
drum , havoc
wrinkled frowning
FOREhead toad
carries DaY
cast glowing
touch
FiSt ,
flash= ing full-
frontal
finis
, finest ,
freshest , all SeT
wrench festival
caravan ScAm
VaN RaM
BlaM! SlaM! WhaM!
Reversed slanting Gothic letters
Proposing woo ambivalent cat and mouse rejection
courtship rituals tone-deaf Chevy truck fuck
dynamic tormenting passive object lacking
;guide refused middle class
society sludge
;shameful odds
consume
pitFallS
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Inflamed emerging
un= expect= ed
UNCOMMON ????????????????????
,aggressive symbolic potluck
contradictory
InDusTrY (
flaunted
foreshadowed
PiPe )
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Gold through Poly song &
referential research game
:::can’t keep a seVeN
from a TranSfigurAtioN
hOw wOUld rUe
mAgIc pOtIOn
wAvIng IndEEd
cOUntEd As A
fOrm Of
rEcOgnItION
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through PuNs
Sufficient cozy distrust
penal strains
what EvEnIng
DrAiNs prehensile
kazoo
ballyhoo
do do do
to KangaROO
flute
scholar
pallor
eDiToRiAl clue
aS To misdirected
hEnCe a LiNkInG
melo=
DRAMATIC
assistance
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 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.