there is no silence
in a men’s homeless shelter . . .
late-night cough chorus


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today marks ninety
days at the homeless shelter . . .
misophonia


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downtown skyline through
the shelter’s dock door window—
men snore in the night


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today marks five months
here at the homeless shelter . . .
let’s just sleep all day


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purple foam earplugs . . .
the shelter at midnight is
almost dead silent


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bio/graf

J. D. Nelson is the author of ten print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including *Cinderella City* (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). His 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. Nelson lives in Colorado, USA