Friday, May 1, 2020

J. D. Nelson - Seven Poems

1. today is my birthday


birthday grapes and grape flavor
the language of the birthday foot


birthday gorilla
birthday griffin


birthday eye
and the language of the higher world


birthday plank and birthday plunk


birthday cat looking


birthday jack of hearts is a smeech of woo


birthday cake
to answer the phone


we see the birthday clouds


the birthday big breakfast deal is what I am going for
birthday breakfast burrito
to jaw at earth all night when we breakfast the burrito jams


birthday bonus and a big bag of fries


birthday bats and batman


birthday box of potatoes
way out in arizona earth


birthday burd in on the sky scene
up there for long and wide smiles on his face for all to see
rest assured, birthday burd


birthday brain is all over the day with thank yous and thank you


birthday bag of bugs
birthday bison


birthday bones in a bag


birthday bop is hard and soft like rain



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2. poetry writing once there is a plum in the binding


the people demanded a new color for the palette
this is the ghost red of the famous blues
one third of the buildings are ghost red now


something growls at the sun as the numbers are flashing


beetle tracks
the outer space clouds


the plaidness of the duck will be on display
a serious foam


earth is a cuddly egg
earth is the tragic image of the surfing cow or crow


why is a burd in a box when we have the sky



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3. release the parrots


this is the ticky typing of writing a new poem
in a time when there are no denim hand gloves


that parched star is an old fixture
can you hear the sun with your mind


you know earth as the wet planet but no more
all of the water evaporated and we are here live with the heat


the plumber with emotional socks
not in a sky lock because of the verisimilitude


the union of onion burds
the unabashed specialists



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4. the clean galaxy is the westernmost point of the starfish cavalcade


it’s a lot better than the old planet
do you remember
it was dark and smoky and the water tasted like metal


is that the new earth in the telescope
the synonym of the sphered phrase now


when I am speaking of the sun I will wear this green headdress
to control the world using nakedness


leonard the speed phrase now
power’s on at the rec center this morning


evidence of pie
that last feeling was a cloud passing over
it will be gone in a few seconds


at the convenience store they sell bait and cookies
the latest of the noon bugs to be excavated by the anthropologists



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5. a rooster in the dark


monsters like milk and they drink lots of it
here is a glass would you like to try it


maybe you’re a monster like me
because of the finite mathematics


eat the brain in the jar in a relaxed fur gravy
burd money is on top of the stove


one of the laser rays is out of phase
listening to the astronomical ghosts of the space trip


you need to see the sunshine soon
the start of the water where it really gets wet


earth rips it to the gap in left
I have it here in the back where it is cool



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6. starfire deluge


first day of spring today


plugged into the grid of vowel sounds
& we see in the dark don’t we


cluck huh was one up
to name a denver day


positive boxing & so long to the coxwells
approximately now a nova



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7. populace and population


in the telescope tomorrow is a world of hope
the last roscoe feather for telling a pear to shed its skin


to make certain that the words are in this order
fathom of knock the counter shire with ammonia balloons


the spiral burd of corking the normal holes in the ground
ebbing and flowing with the lasers and the outlaw earth


can’t stop typing with the poetry machine
carbon fractions
named for the founder of the fish restaurant


when nothing becomes the numb
the number and the numbest


a fish in the blue sky
that ghost word of the poem