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About me - Rachel Nelson

About me

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Briefly me

My passion is ...

cheese, theatre, love, potentially all three.

I know too much about ...

vaudeville

My favorite memory ...

picnics in any season

Why I write ...

decompression/exploration

My first job ...

dishwasher at a women's self-empowerment seminar in Oregon.

My inspiration ...

louise bougoise

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Featured article by Rachel Nelson

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Unspoken thoughts
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YES

or:
maybe just a little

(only for the space of one betrayal-)

your fists oddly
stamped

potential hazards
pretty but not beautiful
finally in focus
or close enough to reach out and-

your hands
folded neatly and put away
odd
hard
finally slipping into some semblance of recognition

your pattern of breathing
crunches like glass across this divide
a gulf
a canyon
an eternity

secondhand
touch felt only as gasps
pretty but not
beautiful.

(rough knuckled)

there is a slight buckling in the frame of things

small tremors
watching

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