Downdraft Cauldron
You remember your tunnel
as harmless aurora borealis
purged of positive swimming
and rarefied between patches
surrounding radio discharge
sprouting lumpy vortex in
spans legendarily applicable
and swelling untouched paper
inside tornado. Head matches
bottle of throat turbulence
dreading whirlpool party
favorable to overhead pinwheel
less the eye that weave hurricanes
can loaf in entryway weblike
sheets of aerial portable slice. At
velocity graves nipples radiate
the outward lightning rod seal
avoided though seldom stuck.
Electrical droplets pervert chafing
armpit guitar zanier than an
alarmist speaking without lips.
Ascending pilots mature at slower
rates than dissipating radar bones
purposefully an umbrella. What
a large forecast abridges without
a prediction leaving free balloons
against the last stage of anvil tops.
©2022 Joshua Martin All rights reserved.
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia-based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. 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, M58, Don’t Submit!, Cajun Mutt Press, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, Nauseated Drive, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com