latchy king boat (a hand in the water)
brain in the box to go
the kingship watkins
the young mustard
the croaking lemur
in the salad eye
let me be the world
when you do, you don’t
a series of wet napkins
the night of the walking nothing
the spider waits for the spider-man to run thru the sandwich hall
a concord of the smith to share a sainted hello
that meatloaf is the pen of the pocket
that languishing frost
that lemon squint
the clay of the mortal robe
the pucker of the small earth
language is the paper of the wolf in the tree
J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory. His first full-length collection of poetry, entitled In Ghostly Onehead, is slated for a 2021 release by mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press. Visit http://www.MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Colorado, USA.