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PAUL E NELSON

Hillman City Haibun 5 (White Cat Privilege)

It’s the odd experience successfully translated into language that often makes a good American Sentence. A long walk can yield a sentence or two, but having the daily practice helps with perception in general. After all, the creator of this 17 syllable poem form...

91. Berber City Poems (For El Habib Louai)

It is a month after El Habib Louai visited Seattle, postcards composed during his visit are appearing on my blog and I am reliving the moments through the poems as if they are happening again. Part of what makes this satisfying is the composition method in which, as...