Archive - Bill Nelson's Substack

I saw a face I thought I knew and waved. Where did my arm go?

Jun 7 •

William A Nelson

May 2025

April 2025

Von Bargen's Jewelry

The three of in the livingroom last year chatting about this and that...

Apr 26 •

William A Nelson

March 2025

It isn’t true what we were taught and we all thought and thought about...

Mar 29 •

William A Nelson

Lake Champlain in February

Mar 22 •

William A Nelson

Riverside Park, Early Morning

Early morning walking in the park, a clearing sky after a night of rain...

Mar 15 •

William A Nelson

Four wizards sat on a stump, rump to rump to rump to rump watching a hummingbird stop in air, drink from a blossom and disappear.

Mar 8 •

William A Nelson

edited for continuity

Mar 1 •

William A Nelson

February 2025

Trapped in the Met

Two women in light shawls among wildflowers have forgotten themselves across their foreground field like a wind of petals * * * At the last of the…

Feb 22 •

William A Nelson

January 2025

On Trump's Return to Power

to the tune of Joe Hill

Jan 11 •

William A Nelson

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