Chris Martins Poetry Blog

After reading many of Mr. Martins works, a main theme that I recognized throughout the poems was people and describing the environment around him. Martin portrays an urban scene in the poem  Surviving Desire, with graffiti, the everyday traffic landscape and the smog-blue-gray. Martin uses many words that I do not understand, so unfortunately this slows the rhythm of the poem. Once I look up these words, the poem obviously makes more sense and I am able to understand the poem. The format Martin uses with the three line sections also slows down the reading of the poem. These frustrations set aside, there are a few other lines that I found interesting. In The Science Fiction of Color the line, "Their window in the twenty-second commercial of childhood, our attention wavering as the world does". I'm still trying to unpack this line, but I like the way it flows. This line does reflect my original thoughts on the elements present in his poems, because he might be referencing the unstable world we have today.