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PAUL E NELSON

Celebrating Ian Boyden (80. Bear Dream Bird Dream)

When Sam Hamill read at Spring Street Center back in November 2012 to celebrate and display his collaborations with the painter, book maker and artist Ian Boyden (see this link) Ian gave me a copy of a book on his work entitled: Flowing Movement: The Material...

Walking the Arboretum in Winter with Jim

Each morning I look over last year’s journal entry for the same day and it had been a year since I walked through Washington Park Arboretum with Jim Demetre. Jim’s an amateur botanist whom I met during The Long Walk in 2011, and we’ve kept in touch...

59. Sisuitl (Si’sEyul)

I read this poem Tuesday at the Wedgewood Ale House to good response and so am posting it here. Yes, it’s another in the Haibun de la Serna series, of which I envision 99. It’s also part of the ongoing Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia. Give a listen....

78. Wren and Whale Surrender

78 in a series of 99 neo-barroco haibun written after Ramón Gomez de la Serna. This one inspired by E. Richard Atleo’s book Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview. The holistic way of thinking seems to be so natural in my own thought, yet I know there is much that...