Christopher Nelson
"In this richly imagistic and formally inventive collection, Christopher Nelson illuminates the dailiness of beauty and horror juxtaposed in our natural and private worlds. These poems see straight through to the actual, at once unflinching and tender. ‘I’ve been,’ he writes, ‘patient for the real words.’ How lucky we are to receive them now."
Leila Chatti
Pomegranate
How I’m opened
to juice and bright pith—
the vulnerable interior where
hunger lives
and decides to keep living—
Isn’t that
the truest measure:
should this balcony
this cliff watch me try to fly?
I gather a little
red bowl of you
for my tongue, which is also my
heart—the hedonists know the
wetness that comes away on
fingers
and chin is the
truest affirmation
of God, but God
the problems we make
by letting you decide
what we might become: rind,
husk, exhausted flower
wherein
a forest waits
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