Sierra Nelson

It is Still a Beautiful Dream
     (Phrases from the Hungarian-English Dictionary)

hatching, brooding
  put on the boot
metal coffin
  the pair of you
houses on fire
  leaden cloud
swollen eye
  a rest cure
strained peas
  coupon sheet
gift of books
  chimney corner
lackluster eyes
  gather strawberries
become sodden
  stench of gutters
kick in the pants
  stand off and on
sail out for somewhere

at daggers drown
  lead a dance
cuts no ice
  a divided choir
gooseberry fool
  a shaving mirror
tale of a tub
  a heap of stones
speeding up of machines
  a cubby hole
unfrequented street
  caraway seed
a drop too much
  scalding tears
hardly a mouthful
  taken with a spoon
the cupping glass
  lesson learnt by heart
bitter salt


Sierra Nelson is a cofounder of the literary performance trio The Typing Explosion, with which she has written and performed nationally and internationally. She earned her BA in Literature from Vassar and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington. She enjoys typewriters and translating Icelandic sagas.


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