nathan martin Poems

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61.
Nebuchadnezzar

nebuchadnezzar lie down,
your hanging gardens all around.

nebuchadnezzar can i buy some seeds,
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62.
Burmese Scarcrow

synthetic textile ghost, a.k.a. brown burlap bag
hanging over a shovel in the garden.

along its side reads burmese long grain rice.
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63.
Couple Of Strange Lines

i lied when i was lying
and i walked where i was walking.

i lived when i was living
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64.
Tea

aqua dependent, thirsting for
the mechanical tin priest.

the lord is in the kettle when
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65.
Water Colors

Doctors say that we are seventy percent
water but i think that is bs.

those drawings you made when you were
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66.
The Cement Indian

I did not expect him to be
so stoic.

motionless....
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67.
Peach Gospel In The Cellar

In an old cellar mason jars
full of canned sunsets line
the shelves.
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68.
Watching Tornado Warnings In Oklahoma

Will it pass this way again nobody knows because
the community library has to many paperbacks
and the clouds to many sins.
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69.
Monologue Of A Rock

ordinary clouds on a thursday
afternoon overhead.

All is shaded and gray.
old testament in my skin.
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70.
The Vision

No more buffalo or pigs who speak in latin
for they have all drowned in the sea of galilee
or perhaps been flushed down the Tijuana pipeline.
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