light snowfall tonight
but no accumulation
oatmeal for dinner


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cups of coffee at
eleven-thirty at night
can’t find my ear drops


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bus leaves without me
guess I’ll stay home & try out
those detergent sheets


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bio/graf

J. D. Nelson’s poems have appeared in many publications, worldwide, since 2002. He is the author of eleven print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including *purgatorio* (wlovolw, 2024). 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 Boulder, Colorado, USA.