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 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.
future money
spoken into the machine:
the impossible sound of itself
a good fish for this
some trees in boulder
is she is
∴
oboe,
alpha,
tr. z.
CLONE YOUR OWN THOUGHTS
// name of magician ___________
(cat gets burgers)
truck fiction /// TOAD apple,
Wendy’s for the milk.
BROKEN McDONALD’S
BROKEN McDONALD’S
BROKEN McDONALD’S
Frogless Laserkraut
those old rabbit masks might come in handy
the frozen bird
little frosty we call him
the only one I’ve ever known to bite
luncheon owl
near/dear
— I’m No Angelfish —
I left my brain in the cow
word of this has spread to the antipodes
awake with paper
J.ÿellow ÿarn
a lanÿard
& a lÿnÿrd
a room
at the ramada
a mapple,
an applemap
american
chainsaw
suddenlÿ
we are the world
we are the chicken
OLD ATLANTI$
– – -possible MONSTER ///
wearing a robot mask from Osco
// AMERICAN CLONE
MUDLUNGS // [frog twine]
VINCENT PRICE eating a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats
past the soft light one evening, familiar trees (HERE) —
Zane adv this A&W ____ Prowse
J. D. Nelson
(NOTHINGO)
✔aspirin mask
bean sour,
Hodge
send 40
: .
Owl has eaten.
“You said it,” I said.
J. D. Nelson
