Rodney Nelson’s work began appearing in mainstream journals long ago. See his page in the P&W directory:
http://www.pw.org/content/rodney_nelson
He has lived in various parts of the U.S., working as a licensed psychiatric technician and copy editor, and now resides in the northern Great Plains. Rodney’s recently published chapbook and book titles are: Metacowboy, Mogollon Picnic, Hill of Better Sleep, Felton Prairie, In Wait, Cross Point Road, Late & Later, The Western Wide, Billy Boy, Ahead of Evening, Winter in Fargo, Hjemkomst, Canyon, Time Tacit, and Minded Places.
Rodney says: ‘Most of my poems “arrive” during walks and are written down as soon as I return home or years later.’
Unheard in the Woods
give me every sense and a white coat
a body to dig and hunt and run with
and I’ll evade the talon
the bullet
the trap and the tooth and the arrowhead
I’ll breed with what I’m scenting on the wind
I am an ermine that you thought you saw
in snow that bore or might have borne a mark
where I had gone my mulling way
and I
in covert did not blink as you went yours
one winter day of our betaking
Rodney Nelson
