detailed descriptions of spiders
touching imperils green
studies dart gun handles
pardons dusty tarts
skirmishes military carriage
dalliances dance penguins
atrophied encyclopedia
dogmatic banjo drink
a drunk in a kangaroo tank
less evil than a tooth fairy
volumes institute cloudburst singles
Now you KNOW televised plutonium
charts PATHS between GRAZING invisibility
little GUSTS of hiding a distorted rendering
CircuS peeling mousetrap
HOLEs where fingers SWELL
softer & stiller than a YACHT
full service glue wisp
telephone hooks catfish mummy
popularized three stooges dinner party
games provoke pin cushions
pangs of ulcerated shovel digging
big BOWL of sugar CUBES
& frozen vehicular kidneys
STRAINed against screen
spenT ON sabbatical
framed w/in horseshoe wolfhound
barnacle sunsets regained
headphone spark plug
perversions lustrous as angel hair
pasted contracts flame kicking
outward model faculty embalmed
copied notepad legalized budget
prioritized up & coming machete
glow fish resigning commission
starting time warp haiku
membrane pontificates
provincial tunnel parade
traffic poisons prisms
readies atmosphere
unknown utilities
supersized leave taking
milestone toasted grace crowd
hedgehog placemat grinder
a lucite table leg
mannequin football roast
canned to hint w/o appeal
contracts display overabundance
stray hammers swallow lip sockets
timeline agenda grouping microfiche
air tube intestine vents spooling
traumatic integrated palsy graduation
beetle byline bypassing database
recorded sprig parsley a troll
interiorized sanitation spill pinball
machine chronic influenza
stressed boiled reduced mothball
basic fingernail back light hump
excessive melting renegotiated
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press, 2021) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in Coven, Spontaneous Poetics, Ygdrasil, Expat, Selcouth Station. RASPUTIN, Train, Fugitives & Futurists, Otoliths, M58, Punk Noir Magazine, Ink Pantry, Beir Bua, and Scud among others.
You can find more of Joshua’s work here on Ink Pantry.