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Cole's Words

Nicholas (Cole) Barnes is a poet living in Portland, Oregon.

His debut chapbook, Restland, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2025.

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Published Poems

"Brook"
"Lake Poem"
"Lithia #4"
"Poem at Five"
BEATIFIC / Spring 2021 / Volume 1 / Issue 2

"Waterspout"
"Susan"
Something Involving A Mailbox! / Issue 8

"Green Flash"
Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal / Spring 2022

"better med"
"Dolores"
Barzakh / Winter 2022 / Issue 14

"latrans"
Mortal Mag

"cosmic filaments are like Earthly oceans:"
"emery bored"
Platform Review / Winter 2022

"Grave"
Vermilion

"lament"
The Bluebird Word

"Toy"
Vermilion

"au revoir"
Scapegoat Review / Fall 2022

"rambling drive"
300 Days of Sun / Volume 2 / Issue 3

"dearly departed"
"pier"
"bunny"
Literary Veganism

"armistice"
Mixed Mag

"river rat"
Clementine Unbound

"Highway 62"
"bullpen"
"b
ohemia"
Juste Milieu

"james john"
Hive Avenue Literary Journal / Volume 5

"A child said 'What is the grass?'"
"jove"

Divot: A Journal of Poetry / Issue 3

"laute"
Primeval Monster

"downtown"
Untenured

"s.o.s."
Open Minds Quarterly / Volume 24 / Issue 2

"naomi is"
Bluepepper

"Little Cole"
oddball magazine

"paradise lost"
Mobius: The Journal of Social Change

"n.y.e."
"ethanol"
"fume-fire"

Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal / Volume 2 / Issue 2

"Levi's Stadium"
Vermilion

"beach street"
NonBinary Review / Issue 29

"columbia ave"
New Feathers Anthology

"Aqua"
Unstamatic

"Please Don't Bury Me"
Rabble Review / Number 4

"Clima mortis"
SHIFT: A Publication of MTSU Write / Volume 5

"Sailor"
Quibble / Issue 4

"stacy, 2:30 a.m."
Querencia Press / Autumn 2022

"awaken"
Spit Poet Zine / Volume 12

"don't take my word for it [bad advice]"
trampset

"vermont poem [pluviophile]"
Eclectica Magazine

"eat me"
Marrow Magazine

"8th grade funeral"
"tipple"
"amen"
The Phoenix / Issue 64

"wild years"
"fairy tale"
BRUISER

"Crazy Diamond"
Unstamatic

"buck shot"
"yolanda"
"flambé"
Bear Creek Gazette

"until next time, buddy"
Sage Cigarettes

"lan su gardens"
The Cloudscent Journal / Issue 2

"Nothing"
"Lullaby"
Changing Skies / Volume 2

"gone fishing"
"sad"
"poet kills bird"
"acer"
"everyone you know someday will die"
The Ana

"shyness can stop you"
The Headlight Review

"meghan's good year"
Devastation Baby

"Delta"
Brimstone & Venus Literary

"i found you on page 60"
Hot Pot Magazine / Issue 1

"gaggle"
Chinchilla Lit / Issue 2

"put a laurel wreath around my neck"
Roi Fainéant Press

"static"
"damaged parts, no warranty"
"maison de rêve"

Misfit Magazine / Issue 36

"ruth's black eye shines brighter than any streetlight in the city"
Revolver Lit Mag

"ashes"
Progenitor Art & Literary Journal / Volume 58

"you are"
BULLSHIT LIT / Anthology 02

"oberon's"
Compass Rose Literary Journal

"octopus"
Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal / Volume 3 / Issue 1

"raindrops"
Rathalla Review / Spring 2023

"12:13 am"
Salmon Creek Journal / Issue 24

"june watches ballgames in heaven"
Pamplemousse / Spring 2023

"chico"
miniskirt magazine / Issue 20

"i wrote your name at the top of the neues rathaus"
Fish Barrel Review / Issue 6

"kumbaya"
"thursday odyssey"
Crab Apple Literary / Volume 1 / Issue 2

"three caps, three stems"
Brushfire Literature and Arts Journal / Edition 75 / Volume 2

"bloody town"
"charon's obol"

The Parliament Literary Journal / Issue 10

"joan of arc & michelangelo"
Tap into Poetry / Issue 4

"don't drop out [a link wray 45]"
New Note Poetry / Summer 2023

"a sudden shift in glasnost"
RockPaperPoem / Issue 6

"draft #1 looked like pennsylvania"
"that'd be nice"
"dying unicorn"
Juste Literary

"greener pastures"
Hot Pot Magazine / Issue 7

"now i know why tom & huck staged their own funerals"
Gold Man Review / Issue 13

"glacier"
"roll on tanner creek"

"11.6 pounds"
"if i had a milwaukee vibrator"
O:JA&L; Open: Journal of Arts & Letters

"oakland 2011"
Meniscus / Volume 11 / Issue 2

"idaho"
Panoply / Issue 25

"nature boy"
Juked

"we held hands"
Eclectica Magazine / Volume 27 / Number 4

"j. dean boys"
"their souls could've lifted so high"

BRUISER

"tout à moi"
The Spotlong Review / Issue IX

"painting hands"
Cola Literary Review / Volume 3

"attn: mission princess"
Beaver Magazine / Issue 10

"too much to ask"
"private beauty"
Does It Have Pockets
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"corpse flower"
Quarter After Eight / Issue 31

"unfinished business"
3Elements Review / Issue 44

"burn blue"
Bodega Magazine / Issue 144

"typo"
Ignatian Literary Magazine / Volume 37 / Issue 1

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"the ripples'll hold me like down pillows"
Wasteland Review

"something that happens in our eyes"
"fly again"
elsewhere / Issue 24

"last cigarette"
HAD

"i've never seen the northern lights" [forthcoming]
Prime Number Magazine

"the carousel saddle"
Gone Lawn / Issue 59

"washed out"
Redivider / 22.2
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"let it kick in the hinges"
Little Patuxent Review / Issue 38
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"sun's coming up"
Baltimore Review / Spring 2025
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"barber chair"
Midway Journal / Volume 19 / Issue 3

"where does this absence lead" [forthcoming]
Crab Creek Review

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