J. D. Nelson

J. D. Nelson

J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) is the author of eleven print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including purgatorio (wlovolw, 2024). His first full-length collection is in ghostly onehead (Post-Asemic Press, 2022). Visit his website, MadVerse.com, for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Boulder, Colorado. He recommends the Denver Rescue Mission.

the name of the beast
or the number of his name
 
what’s at the center
but a big hole

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it’s tree time!
I am without
 
the sporting news

​on the final earth

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I’m sailing in the moonstream
I’m walking with the white noise feet
 
we can hear the sunshine
​nothing in the tree is a secret

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make a solar contribution
make curtains from a hemp parachute
 
one of those people with a lantern
dressing up like a llama

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water is the luxury to print a cookie
would you butter a letter?
 
mary is the magdalene of the soft hands
the paper is the laugh

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you could see the blue in there
read for the blind birds of prey
 
we will sink into the marsh slowly
​then we will be a part of everything

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I wanted to explore the afterlife with my characters, I wanted to let myself fully free, while still tense in the form of literature I have chosen to lock myself into. The death of the world, the death of the ego, the death of the self, the death of god.

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to be the wrong king
the bark in berry amounts and blessing
 
that sad friend in the lumber yard
that miracle frown to bless the kingship soccer

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the move from human to earthling
cheddar dump was a lightning spore
 
when the dreams come down
​the shaking of the language to go

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in thin dime situations,
it is best to remain calm

a found flannel ensures warmth

you are a smaller version of yourself

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