Poetry from Joshua Martin

official dent

hawk sprain
     rapt im=
                mortal
printed            ashen
        ruins
           . pander
push           feather
   fly
      Ball deceit.


Weighted Pushing

                  heels poking
capture
the
      shovel

merriment
               curl
        lust for
                     lists

hyperbolic taint=
                ed
separation          an
                    eel



concrete workplace

shown the tagline
laughing         torrent
            timid         given
     label      western
naturally           rancid
        trailer
                       hobnail
linger
          notebook        oval
                    hemp
               filler
imaginable            stack
       playable
            glassware
shuttling                  grouse
          rim      tongue     sung
tank          prancing
                           eventuality


Advised against Recollected momentum

aligned
         definition
alphabetical     roster
                 tethered
    pole
            life
guesses
       mild
               wood=
wind    [
             custody
    meaning
         bought
/                  sold
     /                 finalized
garish 
      dot
         dot
            dot
              ], , ,

cotton       swept
        idea
glaze   / / /
    coasters    crash
distant      back=
            round
       noise - - -

            jammed up
            previous
            temporary
            intentions
            pulsing
            assumptions
            grossly
            neglect
            preface - - -

tossed
              pursuant
   circumstance       polar
flexing           squat


Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books SCHISMS (C22 Press Open Editions), laminated tongue in aspic (Alien Buddha Press) and automatic message (Free Lines Press). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, Synapse, Version (9), Don’t Submit!, Synchronized ChaosBlazeVOX, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and experiential-experimental-literature. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com