"Sheets of burnt composition paper," "Newsprint fingers," and "Pancake mustache frozen in place"
Sheets of burnt composition paper
over the volcano
mood change
rainbow bald head
gutters crowded
houses vacant
wings clipped
air unbreathable
cantankerous garbage
into the hollow
halls of political
nihilism
glass shattered like fish scales
piano remarked on
drifting wayward tips
pen caps exploding into the fan
grossly negligent armies
swept through the brain/cellophane
like shallow individualism
of fashion
sound of sight/
positive control breaking down
intangibility left to fill/
a hammer left to swing
particle board
table
seeking alternatives to the free market
monstrosity of wealth
haphazard turns of phrase
scrawled
disproportionate
Newsprint fingers
sudden blue flashes soiled insecure rotten deliberations foaming at otherwise mangled flesh brains crumbs reaching missing transparent maladjusted atmospheric judgments freed furious limbs beating windshield clockwise depths open ended circumstance rat race flesh colored outcomes
into freezers
birds flush
boring
hammers/nails/insect bites
between raindrops an opening occurred mysteries unscathed jumbled like wires reframed telephone poles almost grinning moonlight escapades relentless twitching rivers perilous hunting like loose eyeballs
hanging
mountains
squeezing
breaking tuneless
along pebble roads
curving
labyrinths unfolding
cursing
graph paper
the compass scientific progress
horror foreheads organs
entwined in spiderweb
foot buried beneath
cultural debris<in the dungeons of
the university the death of
texts><criticism only reduction=
reactionary>
teeth chipped
pin pricks
vibrating wrath
red zone towers
seekingcontradictionsinthought
Pancake mustache frozen in place
asteroids hit beach towels
& umbrellas
circulate at cocktail parties
dancing foxtrots under fountains of ice tea
(steady)
(as)
(it)
(punishes)
insects rats laminated in sinister situations
trances avoidable frenzies frantic stirring impacts
constant tongue lashings
smells like
formaldehyde
pounce on frogs
(stone cold)
feet swollen
the waltz
a crater of
disbelief
dismembered chorus lines
cruising
the streets
for milkshakes
an eyeball lost
in a socket
hair on paper
lost
lost
academic misfortune
mud pies of
solid diameter
stubborn shoulders posed as statues
monkey yearns lizard like perspectives
violent in
their
curving
as abrupt
as dentist’s
chairs
faces made up to leak
boiled as a peanut
bent expression adjusted
creeping of stamped hands
hard surfaces spill
<cracked
finger
nails
bliss
ful
demons
smoking
hash
> barndoor
swing open
until shut
=gruesome cavalcade of dimensions
misapplied
always
covered in
tattered
fabrics=
against leaf
wall over
comma
beside circle
underwear dis-
integration
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 peeping sardine fumes (RANGER Press) and [Ruptured] >> Schematic << MAZES (Sweat Drenched Press). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com Joshua recommends the Morris Animal Refuge.