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PAUL E NELSON

54. Black Dragon Year

 54. Black Dragon Year (see 54. Black Dragon Year for proper lineation) The heart measures in blood everything that happens. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna The dragon stays stuck to lampposts at the boundaries, but looks like a mountain lizard. The ancient poet stays in...

Paul Nelson Interviewed by Steve Barker

My gratitude for Steve Barker for taking time to look over my websites and conduct an intelligent interview about my poetry, about SPLAB and some interviews that I have conducted over the years. Thanks Steve. Ordinary Madness #24 PAUL NELSON April 30, 2012 Posted by...

Before Pigs

The opening poem from my current project: Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia. Text, with linebreaks fouled up by WordPress, is here: https://paulenelson.com/pig-war/before-pigs/

53. Nothing Death

53. Nothing Death A kiss is nothing in brackets. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna A poem’s nothing on paper. A stellar jay’s a punk in a western vista. Any death’s an opportunity. One wd sing his pop a harmonium-laden blues w/ gurus and aunties in the same field as genius...

Enbridge Pipeline Poetry Resistance

This in from Christine LeClerc about an amazing piece of resistance to the tar-sands pipeline in poetry form. The poem is a great deal longer than the proposed pipeline and the pdf worth downloading: Dear Enpipeliners, It’s official, The Enpipe Line is ready to...