Three Haiku


first day of July—
lightning above the mountains
to the west of here


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electrical storm!
radio static crackles
during the ballgame


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small bird in the air
attacks magpie on its perch
guilty on all counts


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bio/graf

J. D. Nelson is the author of eleven print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including *purgatorio* (wlovolw, 2024). 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 Boulder, Colorado, USA.