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The sun dried your hardwood tendons,
your head came loose.Pick-axe, one swing and this caliche will break us.
Time to shim you up, tell the wheel
From Arizona Garden by Nils Nelson
grind off your burrs.
After Nils Nelson left the University of Arizona with a Janitorial Certificate (and a B.A. in English), he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at Cal State Fresno, ’74. His poems have appeared in Seneca Review, Ironwood, Crazyhorse, Partisan Review and other suspects, with a new poem due in the Irish magazine, Channel. An avid golfer and award-winning golf writer and editor, his articles have been in numerous national golf magazines. Nils Lives in Tucson, where he’s polishing a full-length manuscript.
the poet's billow 