Melrose

A Creative Nonfiction Piece by Luke Nelson You should be grateful.  You should feel blessed.  Look how beautiful this place is:  Wide open skies,  Finely trimmed hedges,  Pretty little houses.  Look at how good you have it. See this utopia of American dreams? Feel the lull and the sigh?  You are perfect in the beauty.Continue reading “Melrose”

A Real Man

A Short Personal Memoir by Luke Nelson 12/1/21 A thick fog hangs over the tree-laden hills and clings to the grass fields. I can see my grandfather, “Pa,” within the haze. He is nothing more than a silhouette of a man. The fog is dark and menacing but in a beautiful sort of way, thoughContinue reading “A Real Man”

The Eyes of God

A Poem by Luke Nelson In a foreign land there lie mountains of rock and of stone. A Wind blows through the gullies, A Hum through the towering trees. In these mountains there is a deep gorge ascending downwards. No man has been to the bottom; It is observable only by the strong-willed thrill-seeker, TheContinue reading “The Eyes of God”