Issue a5 · 2012

 

 

White Cough

 

by Stephen Nelson

 

 

 

 

1.

Fake folk bean toe in attendance.
                                                     Ethereal
manipulation logo consults only
        apostrophe ever to have survived
                                                                 castration.

 

 

 

2.

The red vine holiday villa sits in
     sidereal plenitude.
I am a violent moonbeam
                     larynx at the core of
               lassitude.

 

 

 

3.

Diphtheria valve succumbs to crust.
       Chase rainbow meat is my enemy
in cars of parables of Samsung.

   Vinaigrette relic conspires to erase with
                             toast factory teardrop
           plucked from craving.

 

 

 

4.

Horn of euphoria blasts a printmaker.
    Lakes. Inks.
                                      Jar leaf unheard
of saturation.

Moist coil bone bind flits a
       butterfly to crevice lick the
         rock.
                    Butter as urge
       in wine pap simulacrum.

 

 

 

 

5.

Phone to the euphonium of ear personality
                                                                        with glow.
Cataract the corporation involves the.
          Descant bliss
                                      inside a
    reactive lung quake.
          Mortuary orchard appeals to
decibels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen Nelson is the author of Flylyght (Knives Forks and Spoons Press) and two chapbooks of visual poetry.  His work has most recently appeared in Moria, BlazeVox and Otoliths.  His collections include Lunar Poems for New Religions (anything anymore anywhere press). See his lovely blog at afterlights.blogspot.com