As much as I love and look forward to the fall season, I’m also a little freaked out by how fast it’s come around this year. Part of me feels like I just made this list for last year. And yet here we are again. My summer reading list was mostly enjoyable. I liked someContinue reading “Fall Reading 2026”
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Luna’s Villanelle
You came to us, curled tightly on the floor,A shaggy roll, shaking, small, and flatAs if movement would subject you to more Cruelty that you had known and absorbed into your core,Your soul’s worth diminished to only thatWhich you could birth, the profit they could score Thanks to your body and all that it couldContinue reading “Luna’s Villanelle”
School Haiku
These are a few haiku that I jotted down during my doctoral class week in June: First doctoral courseLectern sits behind the profThe crest is crooked Morning before classChair yoga held in our roomI should have slept in Keurig at the backThey’ve provided dark roast podsI’m on my fourth cup
Jeffrey A. Nelson 