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Paul Nelson

Paul Nelson: Coyotes

December 21, 2016 by PBQ

In a shaft of brass light down through spruce, a big chocolate male, done for the year, pads across moss, dissolves in shadow. The tattered blond bitch stands in bright spring grass edging the woods. Hanks drag from her molting flanks, ears alert for mice and voles. Two pale kits dive after each other. Shorter […]

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Paul Nelson: Coyote

December 21, 2016 by PBQ

Last December, just beyond the windows where we stand with wine, she clawed for frozen apples in her new coat beneath the tree the children climbed. Just bred we guessed. I just wanted to caress her muzzle and ears, lower my face to her eyes, say something as if she were a dog, something fatuous […]

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Paul Nelson

December 19, 2016 by PBQ

Paul Nelson’s latest of 8 books is BURNING THE FURNITURE, Guernica Editions, 2014. His work has won an AWP Award for Poetry, a University of Alabama Press Series Selection, and an NEA Fellowship. His first book, CARGO, was with The Stonewall /Windhover Press, Iowa City, 1972.  From 1979-1989, Professor/Director of Creative Writing, Ohio University, he […]

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