Copyright © 2020 Otis Nebula Press. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2020 Otis Nebula Press. All rights reserved.
resolutions
begin at the intersection
of nothing left &
waking as a mode
of abstraction
what gravity would do
to my anxieties
is akin to lava
meeting an ice shelf
the sonic texture of interruption
i am beautiful
throwing lasagna at the television
every day: the beginning
of a new year spent
trying to become invisible
without dying
the body as vapor
acid trail visual as manifesto
opening up the sky
is the goal
the last piano in a desert
blizzard isn’t enough
the turbulence is oceanic
it’s called having a brain
unfortunately
death is telepathic
a garden
filling my organs with passion fruit
finding proof of extraterrestrial life
the absence of your you an hourglass filled with sulfur
what’s the rent like behind your lids
i’m trying to get there
baby grand pianos cascading over waterfall cliffs
we walk and scream in technicolor
we are learning to yield fruit
we have the same number of bones
spray paint was invented to adorn our organs
while we slept
it took the butter
fly two days to stop blinking
its wings in the stairwell
still nouns eventually get the hero
treatment and die
a baby on a lava rock is the look
i’m going for like lava rock
lava rock blood on the mantle
laughter as the tears of happiness
it’s creepy
& that the internet is an ecosystem
is reason to learn the names of succulents
before the words are made
of gold & diamond
& before you know it
you have a mouth
full of labradorite
just like that
Triin Paja
M.G. Martin is the author of “One For None” (Ink, 2010). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bamboo Ridge, Juked, ZYZZYVA, Sink Review, PANK, Hawaii Pacific Review, and from Greying Ghost Press. A 2018/9 W.S. Merwin Creative Teaching Fellow, he teaches middle school English and lives upcountry Maui. Find him online at
mgmartinpoetry.tumblr.com and @m.g.martin.