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Tenacious
by Ada A. Ohnezeit I look upon the Autumn scene And leaves that only yesterday were green With vividness of Summer's sheen – Now faded,...

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Aug 26, 20241 min read


Refuge
An oak stands sentinel over this haven,
Disrupting the old fence, tangled wire,
Moss green posts, sunken reminders

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Aug 22, 20241 min read


Bede's Sparrow
Had I not met the souls who gather at Miriam’s Kitchen
each morning for a meal, I could not have shared poems
that sway like sensate trees

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Aug 19, 20241 min read


A Loon Call
I am full of bewildering awakenings.
I stare at the faraway collision of tree-blur
where every moment vanishes. I hear a stirring.

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Aug 12, 20241 min read


The Birch Leaf
The stippled trunk curves left,
almost as thin as my wrist,
its branches bowing
toward the rain-matted grass.

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Aug 5, 20241 min read


Dark Early Morning
Diamond-bright, Jupiter rides the moon’s crown,
Distant harmony describing the immeasurable,

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Aug 1, 20242 min read


Pharaoh's Daughter
And years from now, she’ll tell herself
this was a moment—a moment

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Jul 29, 20242 min read


The Fruit Market
your plum-rounded
face and your plum-
darkened pupils, soft

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Jul 17, 20241 min read


Summer 2024: Editor's Note
A summer note from our Editor!

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Jul 15, 20242 min read


Why I Would Like To Be A River
It begins as a whisper
in a lonely place high up
among the bracken and the sedges,
unnoticed, trivial.

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Jul 14, 20241 min read


Metaphor
By D.A. Gray Two men stand at the edge of a clearing, looking up at the night sky, cloudless and still, heavenly bodies never this...

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Jul 5, 20242 min read


Midsummer Sketch in Pastels
The midsummer dawn has barely opened its dreamy eyes. One river flows peacefully between reed and pebble under the weight of a blanket...

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Jun 24, 20241 min read


Migratory Birds
by Paula Rodriguez A yellow goldfinch is perched atop the wall that was damaged by the last earthquake. Its minute weight adds to the...

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Jun 7, 20241 min read


Consonance with Waves
By Birdie Marie Rodriguez Under a cordial sun he offers seaweed as ambrosia and stops at the splendor of a shell, turning its ribbed...

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May 31, 20241 min read


River
by Jenna K. Funkhouser I. a bird which is not quite a heron rests by the slow river and the ripples caused by little eddies around its...

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May 27, 20242 min read


As always, begin again…
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;

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May 26, 20242 min read


Our Sins, To Be Confessed
By Karl Plank the remembrance of them is planted in my tongue like barbwire comes out of my mouth like the ripping of soft tissue bleeds...

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Jan 14, 20241 min read


Diane
By Cassidy Irwin When we met, she gave me a little coin, dazzling in old Oklahoma dust, and made me promise that one day I would let her...

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Jan 10, 20241 min read


Parable w/ a Girl-Woman Petting an Injured Cat Before I Knew Her Inside the Coma Awakening of Time
By Ken Meisel When we were fighting, just after the toast & marmalade & coffee, I saw who she was, as a little girl, in all the other...

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Jan 7, 20245 min read


A Poem for the Turning of the Year
by Jenna K. Funkhouser How I wander through these days, stranger to my own making treading on thin spaces, and the cracks expand...

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Dec 27, 20232 min read
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