J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory. Visit www.MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published poems. Nelson lives in Colorado.
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1 a waffling brain for beedo
stark
herring completes the hum
that
ferret skull and now a larger denim cod
a book now
a
lunch special
pow
was a brand new pocket
and
it made a sound like a dull
watermelon ghost cramping a wheelie
the
vacuumed ghost
why
don’t the huh
2 ten times you junco fidgeters
blip
dot yes is a fleeting hoof of the governance
one
of the chain sisters is using the gum now
rinsing
like a well-o
the
pock is lifting
and
we graft the yes to the no
to
stunt up the heady with one mile of wispy
the
seed person with the variable goose
well
aren’t we a coy universe
3 talk through the waterfall
we
get through the rat chant using the upper hair method
sledge
llama up one building to secure a wallop
fishing
for furniture
the
moment of omelette
scuba
nerf ankle joe
at
war with a duck
worse
than an apple machine
hind
pig could get better at this
4 siren toque was a chimp stagnant
to
establish a colony of ants in the air
now
a standard fish
hammer fish
that old head
a
ghost in the sink
a
corduroy tree
hmm
making earth noises
5 the flexing ham to sugar us with
roses
better
with electricity
time
to get the toast
a
wizard of blended forest
the
bandit cooking pasta
the
candy club of one riff
whitening toothpaste
to
know a vole
a
poisonous finger talking