two small birds eat up
pieces of dropped ice cream cones—
two small children laugh


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bag full of quarters . . .
a dozen dried-up houseplants
at the laundromat


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partially eaten
red apple on the sidewalk . . .
evening sunshower


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people come & go
on a warm summer evening—
bitten by horseflies


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lightning overhead
on a summer afternoon—
on the phone with Mom


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church food giveaway—
iridescent Japanese
beetle lands on me


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cool rain cuts the heat
on this summer afternoon . . .
early taste of fall


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wild sunflowers grow
all along the light rail tracks—
someone’s old armchair


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summer in Denver—
distant gold capitol dome
reflects white sunlight


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where’s my pretty bird?
I call for the white chicken
& she runs to me


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bio/graf

J. D. Nelson’s poems have appeared in many publications, worldwide, since 2002. He is the author of ten print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including *Cinderella City* (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). Nelson’s first full-length collection is *in ghostly onehead* (Post-Asemic Press, 2022). Visit his website, MadVerse.com, for more information and links to his published work. His haiku blog is at JDNelson.net. Nelson lives in Colorado, USA.