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Mental Disorder
A collection of written material and images
All work copyright Crawdad Nelson unless specified otherwise


The Revolution may not be on television, but it is on other things
One can't help wondering whose retirement plan is best. It's on everyone's mind these days, right after nuclear war, confiscatory health...


Miner's Lettuce: Free and Easy
For a long time after I knew what it was and what it was good for, I stepped around miner’s lettuce to get at other things, or ignored it...


Quad Mill Nights
Quad Mill Nights My right foot used a pedal to operate chop saws which popped alive from housings a foot from each hand; there was a...
The Top Bench
As published in The Capra Review If sauna doesn't cure you, death is imminent Old Finnish proverb I feel like I have been beaten up and...


Wild Mushrooms in Nine Parts
This one is in the 2016 Suisun Valley Review * tricholoma matsutake This is called tanoak mushroom: twice obscured but resilient, growing...


Walt Whitman comes to life in the Broadway Cemetery
The old cemetery on Broadway near downtown Sacramento was established and in use by 1854, according to a plaque one finds among its...
Work in the Merida Review, from the Murder City Poems
The Merida Review a literary magazine A Road is Just a Trail Made Dangerous Through Improvement & Sunshine March 8, 2016 by Crawdad...


Technology of the Future
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Empty Ambitions
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Without Direction
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