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C. J. Martin

C. J. Martin recently relocated to Buffalo, NY, after having been a lifelong resident of TX. He's in his first year of the Poetics Program at UB (SUNY).

The individual poems (separated by lines here) are mostly untitled, though collectively they're all a part of a larger project called Lo, Bittern.

 

 


(a chemist a chord ac
cord a chasm o a
charade me-
chanic (THE BEST) OR Shadeless
Shorthand
(1st Ex. for a Manual of Aristos)

"One daren’t slip one’s boot across"

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BLUEST STUBEL,

Don’t run to sex-of-fox, heaving.

None lo, so founder-pt. (Nor beltus be,

though nothing could: hills, hills, down,

root, left, roots, the, het.

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The ST Rule:
When ought was yet a little tin luster,
Aboy. -- Or the S rule: Day brought substantial, hardlyaday
when they needing help his work
turned right chatter interval

(?)

an unseen resistance
holped them along & but really wild
(in Undated, to Janes’)

So nursed, traversal of any real slip still beyond me.

(Het’s gone rummaging thr.)

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WAY OUT IN THE OCEAN THERE IS A ROCK
AND ON IT SAYS FORGET-ME-NT


Separately

Satisfactorily in your

Lately in cold, in case daily aslant

thru murk-work, everhope. As, ever. Iterate it.

--It’s a work badge. "If found" (What basis in fact you

rode in on rode on)

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HARBOR SKULKS ITS REEDBED

exceptionally, though his was a book, and he bate-,

and is kindly (Sundays, Bridgehead

Labor Market). Where you return and

resume to commonly underprotected (by truck out of Clarksdale).

As is seen in what follows a labor.

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THE NATURALLY TRIED (BUT IT HOLDS
its lowered virtue)
ever collecting kind.
For when--and then as much as--
was at least something,
slowly. --Rigs it, blown.

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2 LITTLE HEAPS PARTITION:

behind all positive lengths, return-

ing me, a hedge doles

the leaving out

 

 

 

 


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