Mars & Mushrooms
“Who cares about graph paper?” I asked.
The house on Miller Island.
e—
hey, lady
eee—
How
many lungs tonight?
Steel
wool.
“I do,” I said.
(Not offered this semester.)
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 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.