‘hurtling empire stranded beaver’ by joshua martin

hurtling empire stranded beaver

I.
bludgeon centrifuge
ark
stable alliance
palm

II.
peeling sturdy
non-violent scar
of sun
day
dryer
oven wasted

III.
pardonable zilch
zoning hootch
committed co-
conspiratorial
bright skull
candle watch

IV.
tree
knee level
trance

V.
peeled opt out seething
supportive eel
squatting shovel
garden
garden
clearly outsized

VI.
outlandish highlands
formation
latitude

VII.
despairing ouch
oink
oink
oink

VIII.
opinionated baptismal font
justified zany horizons
lining poorhouse lounge
thirty supportive zingers
loos of habitat pencils
reeling vertical cougars

IX.
wis
crisp
zesty willful glories

X.
inundated squelch
a g
r
a
p
e
fruitful
juiced
s/c/a/m
in
bucket fairy
t/a/b/l/e

XI.
crate
more
barrel
than
hollow
oxygen

XII.
zenith flirtatious hound
entering chum bum
levers lifting laughter
easing dangled squares

XIII.
rode a rod to sod
jet piercing column

XIV.
consumer spit take
shove gasoline tank
up Up UP

XV.
crystal mandolin desserts
scrubbing diatribe
uneven bartender
w/ smirking
jacket &
barrier grief

XVI.
jungle merchant
coffee barren
landscape bliss
furniture

XVII.

marzipan petering sunken yeast
trove alone foreboding driving geese

XVIII.
desire disease
aftershave cleanse dance
showered limbo fevers
mushroom shrinking alleyways
my
my
my
the many turbulences of a dove

XIX.
re-boost
changing diorama joint

XX.
scattered ashes boldly sacred
scarring confidential nonentities
boiled perfected jumbo plane
laser shrugging log fog sock
bow dome shaggy endeavoring


about the artist

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 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, Version (9), Don’t Submit!, BlazeVOX, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and experiential-experimental-literature. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com

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