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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. 

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