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  • If You Look for Something
  • Nathaniel Nelson (bio)

If you look for something,you will find it,

or you won't.If you look for nothing,

you will find it.Open up your throat,

and you will give the wind a home.Open up your eyes,

those graves of starlight.Take a walk at midnight,

you will see the yellow moon,or not. Close your eyes,

and nothing much will happen.Cast about for something,

and your handwill meet with something,

or with nothing,or with nothing you can hold. [End Page 365]

Nathaniel Nelson

nathaniel nelson is a resident of Sewanee, Tennessee, and an employee of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His poetry is forthcoming in the spring 2019 issue of Birmingham Poetry Review.

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