J. D. Nelson



STINKING OF ATARI

/// how light is made:

as one would enter water

                half-house,
                half-man

you’ve been eating dirt,
worms

                worms

lakes
                to be fed later



FROGSTEAKS

breakfast morning, USA
not a sound in sight

                construction
                paper wasp

quite the volcano bat

chicken it out:

                EVERG-

                               LADES
                               REEN



[BIX]

Diamond Head, Nebr.

UFO claymation is nuclear war in the Skoal night.

That old cheese grater?
                He cain’t do nuthin’ —

                               •
                               •
                               •
                               •
                                              : Centaurus
{ viz.



WAR THOG

numbermath:

seventieths
:
                SPL
                ICE
                :
                :
onk amera

slyve
gurch
                :
                .
                .

                .

                .
                n + 3150(n)




BIG BATMAN

the frontier fades

rabbit show - - - OO

                --- nurt

BITE / / /
                OO



SELF-PASSERBY

                CANA
                DA

                CA
                NADA

CAW
NAW
DAW



J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words and sound in his subterranean laboratory. More than 1,000 of his bizarre poems and experimental texts have appeared in many small press and underground publications. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including When the Sea Dies (NAP, 2011), On the Toad (The Red Ceilings Press, 2011, and Red&Deadly, 2011), Roman Meal (Ten Pages Press, 2011), Noise Difficulty Flower (Argotist Ebooks, 2010), and The Frankendelphia Experiment (Tainted Coffee Press, 2010). Visit MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. His audio experiments (recorded under the name Owl Brain Atlas) are online at OWLNoise.com. J. D. lives in Colorado, USA.
 
 
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