Poems by Joshua Martin

STUDDED HOLE IN THE WALL

twisted ciphers undulate
chopped potato deer hooves

released ponder shirt tail
wonderful asparagus rifle
stunted wet miscreant
homeless unto lozenges

throat clenches photographs
wafting haystack crashing
timed beauty altar
crab witness guarantee
lumber fleeing camaraderie
relish microphone theatricality
slogging forward avenue spittle

chortled loyal partygoers
punch drunk dribbling

laudable paradox pier
not yet hot raw & seldom
wrinkled nose proverb
candlewax infinity cross

waterspout lookalike vinegar
train pulls into burnt landscape

already superimposed skillset
aimless bombastic magician
slamming mallet childhood
a canyon risen between greed

fallen paragraph bubble crown
oceanside mistletoe wraith

misery loves happenstance


AQUAMARINE SUBLIMINAL ILLUSTRATIONS 

dust the thorough magnetic trousers
busying blossom champagne crusts
stunned like kangaroos
left in wooded bookbinding hut

clarity of a mountain mangled
over Soviet montage flippers
wearied insatiable ticking
release pole-vaulted fingernails
unsteadily mopping galactic avocados

wimpy a whispering carousel
the lawn ornament coughing
to reward mischief sneaking
resourceful yet backlogged

blue then shorn
must have figured handpicking
sorting hot air balloon snot
once soaked in microwave brunch
regretfully administering moles

achievement hands bask
dripping panorama
wandering yippee lunch wraths
stone-faced until chapped
fusing lips into clouds