Joshua Martin, Five Extreme Experimentalist Pieces

Under the Cobblestones, the Pranskter
image by Joshua Martin

inBOX festival [fever]
 
invert wIsP
       cast OuT lying sticks
                - - -
         threaded surface
         momentum           pOOl
                          , a pale strumming choral ,  drift . . .
whisper
    poisonous
               AiR    - - -
                    ‘whose without
                            of munitions
        gusty album                decades’   / / /
                       [centuries]
           ,,, realm          perceiving numbered
                          fusions        :      FISTS       :
(((coronations)))
          \ LaSt
                   lOOse Germanic
                              chanted     hAmBuRg   - - -   greased
PaLmS
          ,, PaLaCe  ,,  chalice        breaks       zing
                        zapping     /      - - -       changing
seamless                     united        torch           rapture
          [          | rumble
                       thunder
                       blunder
                                  | ]    . . .  bAnD
           resists
Buddha                rUg                 - - - reunion
                                       secluded             dumpster
     - - - reserved
                  bEAt     craft
        ,,,,                               staged
                                                  ruminations   ,,,,
good / sped / jester /
                  (((((flash)))))               token
                                                      spoken
                                   resonate                  MOLD
[first impressions
               waning     sellout     user
                                         pulse      ]    - - -  fans
       drift
           dreamily     , , ,        crashing outgrown
                     degree                           [pitch]  - - -  .

Public Invoice Grandeur
 
Esoteric condo making mincemeat
tempted synod dust bunny average
             = = = > COARSE
                                   rippling
                            jungle         seasons < - - -
 
     journeying circular sawblade
                 [             whisker            ]
                                           (funnier apple)
((((( \ borrower papacy elbow / )))))
 
        WeAr & TeAr      | Too Many Logos to Burn |
 
>>>>> branded doom <<<<<
 
                        illuminating deadened marrow
                        balancing patio designed mumu
          adept patina swollen pottery grammar
          spraining church printed peachy asphalt
butcher dawdling satellite cooperation sequence island
gallant salt shaker snoring impasse wandering ruffage
 
                    ¡zzzzzzzzzzap!
 
                              stripped relative decline
                              populated electronic tail
                              century league of clouds
 
- - - \ formulaic Sunday shoehorn hands / - - -
 
              eAcH sideways glancing
                                 waterfall
                                          colored tear ducts
                                                   resolving
                                      revisionist        westerns
>    ‘Does it hurt to blink?????’
            > ‘Matter maintains dignity in summer’
   > “Rest assured trial by empirical functions’
 
                      | sNoB |   - - -   | slop bucket challenge | - - -
 
sOrRoW
           sorrow        bOrrOw
                    tomorrow’s         earlobe husbandry       splint   

satin,venal,defined sentence structure worm
 
slug,felt,belt,
          the meaning undulating lilt
          feverish dress of uncovered pimple
                            [blameless,scar,wilted,signed] /
last derided disasters
weeping analyzed entrails
    (((((Mistrials))))) / (((((foolish handshake
                                               intellectual)))))
/ scholarly milling drift \ , , , , , dissenter
                                                  broken
                                                  cower
                                                  multiplication
                                                  tower , , , , ,
            gov’t IV beech
            typified bono VIP
            vested spit swaying
 
.......... TuNdRa whisper thorough crowd ..........
 
sleet,screech,mini,
                  [[[[[- - - mentioned heap timed boxer
                                fork pelvic shover cupid - - - ]]]]] ,
incept walking stuck
tripwire price tag
 
                 limp
                      thousand dollars
curtain                  / / / / / / / / / /      touring
                                                       endeavor
                                                       mitochondrion
                                                       layer / / / / / / / / / /
            doublet
            slipped
            disc    sssssssssshimmer
                                avenue jjjjjjjjjjury
                  WARNING                     SIGN
                                   skullduggery
 
 
Solid confrontation Repute
 
default libation scream
                  Of PuMpKIn  : : :   ‘little remake
                                                   another’s negotiation
                                                   a sticker nude
                                                   & pompously wrestling’  : : :
 
          NoW  /  NouN  /  mediation recourse   , , , , ,
 
| re=
  BuIlT |     - - -    studio murky tank    - - -
 
                     dated topical
                     wither neon
                     vibrations    . . .   phoning barred
                                          roof                    plunger
                          fantasy         / / / / /
 
Envy Verb Page Sunken Screen    / / / / /
 
                                   nervous age leader
                                   trapping audience
                                   fattening cassette
                                               backwards parking lot
                                               searing parallel digressions
 
 
Window Rail Thankful Alumni Draft
 
sHoW tuned lOgIc rAw dArK tHuNdER
head observes last furniture grades
hairy ruling pindrop straw pIsS : :
 
               [ ‘take out nine sNaP sWaN
                   impossible allocated virtue
                   eras unending the CrEaK’ ] ;;;;;
 
    fashionable
              chewing
        stare         InTeNsE      vapid
                   humor cruelly implanted
,
 (((((the rose implants the blOOm)))))
                                              , wincing phrase
                           oddly manifested
                           screwdriver promenade - - - tHo
     arranged - - -    [terrific school simile
                               ; over thought a genre smirk;] / dusted
          oFF / written mathematical sojourn \
fortnight sentence hanging as unpleasant
                        sAnD cAsTlE \ narrow smoky
                                                  paper veering
                                                        torso sack \ an
                into centimeter
                            dirt leather - - -
 
disposal tattoo ligament
functional clever funeral
        simplistic autonomy
        grandfather terrorism
        calendar grasshoppers
        reissued generational
        attentive panhandle - - -
 
                            re=sequence
                    commuted          transit
              rush                                looser
                                 fermented             excising
 
 
—Joshua Martin