“Live gold,” “besieged, a trapped mattress,” “indisputable reduction largest,”...by Joshua Martin

Live gold

macro offensive line

crowded swelt numbskull

sit branch

seek letter

underwhelm harbinger of horizontal

mania ironing t-shirt necklace

back brace a hero’s welcome

tho a bee in ritual Crimea

& knowledge trials an ordeal

courtly leg up

against aghast harpsichord

an ocean brittle to defeat

besieged, a trapped mattress

fer-de-lance consummates

taxable mortar

without uttering

knife’s blade artifact

filled to the top breaking point

shuttered intact Inca ghost town

but still preserving photography

demonstrated stone

popularizes a thaw

as work submarines scorpion

we request feuding most shocking

captured in organic expedited hull

emerging draped b/t

two miles all

allows stalactites to eat iron

as a

bacteria researches

collapse to a

mortally nicked superlative

indisputable reduction largest

alliance embittered onward

vocal technocratic pamphlets

printing deficit deal

skimmed issue tones

domestic loan

circulate abroad

silver a de facto

water from export

wine feast value

agricultural meanness

reacts unsavory minister

told light striking

common evident profile

emerge scope tactician

edifice errors haunting

fault lines certain examination

deficiency context traded boom

flows sectors studied risk force

borrow a fluctuation

normalize a benchmark

absolute a core

interest a publicity

liquidate a relativity

secondary nadir basic

peak since per capita

Bird is shining

You once wire willow

tiptoe tipped tooth

a crowned hollow

plaything housed behind

aquarium fuzzy—

scoffed grinning

growl made out

to moan through

braille—.

Last you uttered pursued

bigfoot jazz hands

latitude a marble patch

stranded near oceanic

peeling skin cramp

tug of war.

Expose

cloudless not curvaceous

pointedly caressing effective labor movement

momentum only provides fundamentally popcorn

making writing opaquely mysterious

captivating guided empire of senseless scales

rooted platform for physical sublimations

strikingly perverse tonal mocking context

provide a civilization

present an illumination

protestations warn bubbles concentrated confidential

warped media mind

distorted veil experiments to third degree

levels papered over bus terminal window harpoon

house from beginning to secret

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books 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, M58, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Coven, Scud, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com