Author: Russell Edson

They have little use. They are best as objects of torment. No government cares what you do with them. Like […]

Mr Brain was a hermit dwarf who liked to eat shellfish off The moon. He liked to go into a […]

They let me in. I went right up to the nursery And climbed into the crib, and assumed the famous […]

In his travels he comes to a bridge made entirely of bones. Before crossing he writes a letter to his […]

Some gentlemen are floating in the meadow over The yellow grass. They seem to hover by those wonderful blue Little […]

There was a man who would marry his mother, and asked his Father for his mother’s hand in marriage, and […]

On the other side of a mirror there’s an inverse world, Where the insane go sane; where bones climb out […]

A woman prepared a mouse for her husband’s dinner, Roasting it with a blueberry in its mouth. At table he […]

A father with a huge eraser erases his daughter. When he Finishes there’s only a red smudge on the wall. […]

In sleep when an old man’s body is no longer Aware of his boundaries, and lies flattened by Gravity like […]

A man had just delivered a toad from his wife’s armpit. He Held it by its legs and spanked it. […]

There was a man who didn’t know how to sleep; nodding Off every night into a drab, unprofessional sleep. Sleep […]

There was once a woman whose father over The years had become an ox. She would hear him alone at […]

There was once a hog theater where hogs performed As men, had men been hogs. One hog said, I will […]

You haven’t finished your ape, said mother to father, Who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers. I’ve had […]

In a back room a man is performing an autopsy On an old raincoat. His wife appears in the doorway […]

We get on a boat, never mind if it sinks, we pay The captain by throwing him overboard. And when […]

This is the house of the closet-man. There are no rooms, Just hallways and closets. Things happen in rooms. He […]

One night a woman’s breast came to a man’s room and Began to talk about her twin sister. Her twin […]

A toy-maker made a toy wife and a toy child. He made a toy house and some toy years. He […]