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Middle Marriage
Time splices our years together
in quirky remix

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6 days ago1 min read
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Spiritus Sanctus
She was
young, strong, undone.
I could just imagine how you tipped
your glasses to each other

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May 91 min read
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Eagle's Flight
by Kenneth Reimer Eagle’s flight at dawn – the sleepy boat shakes droplets of night from its sails. Kenneth D. Reimer lives on the...

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May 61 min read
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Have You Ever Noticed with Spring
this sudden burst of life,
verdant and alive,
as if unable to wait
the celebration

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Apr 221 min read
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Vancouver Night
Dusk on the Island
and I look east to the mainland coast.

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Apr 151 min read
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A Prayer for More
Your hands, the rough and calloused ones that worked
great wonders feeding thousands, healing blind
and palsied poor.

Editorial Staff
Apr 81 min read
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Toward Paradise
I liked to hide beneath the catalpa tree on the terraces behind my house. Its huge, heart-shaped leaves hid me.

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Apr 25 min read
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Water and Sky
Spinning Earth and Moon
shift us from light to shadow
and pull the swollen water
back high onto the shores
of Western Bay.

Editorial Staff
Mar 271 min read
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They Cannot Speak the Language of Juries
She holds the brush like a hammer
pounding her vision like nails to wood
while colours howl and cry on the canvas.

Editorial Staff
Jan 161 min read
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Dia de los Muertos
smiling with lipless mouths, winking with lidless eyes
their brittle bones clacking and clattering
in an ancient percussive rhythm

Editorial Staff
Jan 92 min read
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Death's Route is Serpentine
Death's route is serpentine,
winding in and out of dreams and memories
like a river moving across the land.

Editorial Staff
Dec 30, 20241 min read
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Feeling for the Switch
You asked where God is and meant it
as sincerely as your nightly request
for a glass of water by the bed.

Editorial Staff
Dec 23, 20241 min read
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Consider Your Servant Job
Bid me come, and free my feet...

Editorial Staff
Dec 16, 20241 min read
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Hunger
Morning swells like a leaven
as I follow my hunger

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Dec 9, 20241 min read
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Mothering to Scale
He observes every ant, every roly poly, every gnat. A rock is an occasion.

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Dec 5, 20245 min read
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Searching for the Perseids
Standing in the dark, searching the night sky
for meteor streaks, I hear a deer whuff distress

Editorial Staff
Oct 28, 20241 min read
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I Revisit My Father’s Rooms at His Home in Alaska
I freeze-frame the glacial way he’d rise
from his recliner, brace against his walker to greet me—
when, in his day, he’d crave a ticket an

Editorial Staff
Oct 24, 20242 min read
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Shangri-La
An orchard has many seasons, each tree its sequence of life following a
dormancy masked as death.

Editorial Staff
Oct 14, 20244 min read
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Lazarus
And now I find myself between two deaths,
longing to live more fully, awaiting
a body not discarded but renewed.

Editorial Staff
Oct 10, 20242 min read
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Alcohol
I’m sitting next to a man missing the tips of his ears like they were bitten or ripped off he can’t see too good either...

Editorial Staff
Oct 7, 20241 min read
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