about the flesh made as a list
cruel overview creeping insights
breathless movements draining livid
fragility / or
concepts under duress
squeezing thematically
tho straining whimsical
bookends gracefully obscure [
, ‘remaining deadly & counterproductive’ /
meaning discontinued at
BiRtH
[‘who defects & who remains???’]
; punctuation facelift ragas bleeding aerial tributes
as survival weaves ragged hazards into landscapes
mystically illegal while expanding and spilling and
running in hydroelectric momentum
] : : : : :
=gO mOvE,
TrIp / FLOW,
aiming topical hand sleeves
settling for retold deception
PiLLoWs =
= / / / /
NoR morphing diatribe
TroTs / / / / /
alternately, the bathtub correspondence machine
shifting the moon’s comedic counteroffer chores
wallowing functional floodgates that fade chronology =
But wither =
sElDoM effective
, a TooL
taken for an audience
shiver the shelf beheaded & degraded
who carried the basket, the situation lacking harmless potions
Dropp’d
\ = = bOlD = = / , praised mesmerism
, daubed, described as MusicaL dentures:
‘Nocturnal larynx
stunned through
complacent tubes’ / / / / / of
great distinguished cartography, persons named
with MorbId growth / vacant, scattered, frothy,
regenerated dreams:
MeTHoDs,
phobias, ,
hysteria, , ,
‘the SAME hat? ? ?’ / /
/ / :
; personality conflicts generalized /
suffice, un=
conscious,
freeLY associated & A
RaNgE oF
circumstances
CuRRenTlY
theoretical?
? ? ? ? Ultimately, latent,
a panorama, drowsy: sheer LiNkeD
applications; / ; /
; proximate,
pre-scientific / ‘blEEdInG
SEA-FOAM’
/ ! ! ! ! ! efforts are instructions,
frequently VeileD, heretofore,
thoroughly IM=
probable, / @@@ ^^^^^*, ‘That
Darn
Table
Salt!’*,
\ = occupied = swift hollering
DaDa BonBons / / / / / :
TransPaReNt realities, daily bathers,
LaTeNt conflicts [our disregard for entanglements] /
: pause to cOOk the dripping rebukes
until speech patterns erode
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is a member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books isolated version of nexus (Pere Ube), lung f,r,a,g,m,e,n,t,s before grazing *asterisk* (Moria Poetry), and Cubist Facelifts (C22 Press) . He has had numerous pieces published in various journals. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com