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Paul John Nelson

Paul John Nelson

Burnt and headless inside the dead present of the concentration camp.

Goliath watches from Golgatha at his Amalek. Laughs like depraved denizens. Believes Nat Turner to be exactly the same as the Third Reich…

Jun 1

Burnt and headless inside the dead present of the concentration camp.

Jun 1

Paul John Nelson

Boot crunch old snow along gravel like rallentando creaks of miniature thunder.

Jan 2

Boot crunch old snow along gravel like rallentando creaks of miniature thunder.

Jan 2

Paul John Nelson

God And Man Are Undead

Available on Amazon.

Nov 11, 2023

God And Man Are Undead

Nov 11, 2023

Paul John Nelson

The girl from the mire

Jun 26, 2023

The girl from the mire

Jun 26, 2023

Paul John Nelson

If only I could write the world down in order to write it away.

I think of the will of Cioran and then the will of Plath and remember that there is no dichotomy. Not enough of a similitude to compare…

Mar 31, 2023

If only I could write the world down in order to write it away.

Mar 31, 2023

Paul John Nelson

Creativity

Writing is like running bare through corridors and passages of a humid summer time midnight city. The body has butterflies before the soul…

Mar 11, 2023

Creativity

Mar 11, 2023

Paul John Nelson

Descriptions

A fine line can be translucent. What seems like a delicate balance can also be a fissure into a labyrinth within the story. Descriptions…

Mar 11, 2023

Descriptions

Mar 11, 2023

Paul John Nelson

Interruption

Stairs of oriented strand board and dead body drywall mud are the structure and archipelagoes in a storm of sanded dust that clings to…

Dec 21, 2022

Interruption

Dec 21, 2022

Paul John Nelson

Manifold

Shadows of the coniferous tree move across the extending tuxedo and tabby cat rip blinds covering the living room window. The distant…

Dec 9, 2022

Manifold

Dec 9, 2022

Paul John Nelson

Minus 40

Wintering haze hoary dead soul flakes decorate the cracks of burnt bark finger trees upon the empty Parliament walking path. It’s like the…

Dec 8, 2022

Minus 40

Dec 8, 2022

Paul John Nelson

Paul John Nelson

I’m built of allusion and figurative language. Foucault enthusiast. Author of ‘the girl from the mire’ trilogy.

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