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Nov 26, 20231 min read
Taco Bell Apostate
by Christopher Clauss I thought for a moment of microplastics at the sea floor; I have given up plastic straws for the rest of my days...
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Nov 19, 20233 min read
At Land’s Edge
by Thomas Kneeland Beyond the threshold of this door whispers the sea, and this slave house answers through the carvings imprinted in the...
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Nov 15, 20231 min read
Thy Kingdom Come
By Karl Plank Two rumors have been circulating in town. The one, How a murder of crows gathered in the corn field while You played with...
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Nov 12, 20231 min read
Lost Time in a Greening Cloister
By Nicole Rollender An October day, now the memory of salt & fromageries in Paris & wind-dark— birds the swoops of cathedrals. How bright...
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Nov 8, 20232 min read
Love
By Ken Meisel Something was playing with me in the almond orchards, it wasn’t her, ...
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Nov 5, 20232 min read
Eating Lobster
By Ahrend Torrey In Louisiana, we don’t eat lobster. But on this day, in keeping with the tradition we always had with our friends, we...
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Oct 25, 20231 min read
The Miracles of Life are Innumerable
By Ahrend Torrey Everything is here now. Then in an instant, it’s changed. You know the old saying: you can’t step in the same river...
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Oct 22, 20231 min read
Prophecy IV: The Path Toward Thirst
By Nicole Rollender John the Baptist’s head on a platter. Night begins with this beheading, but also blooming: skull-colored tuberose...
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Oct 19, 20231 min read
After “The Fallen Deer”
by Robert Fillman A century has passed since you straddled that log, delicate neck stretching to meet the creek’s surface, snout skimming...
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Oct 15, 20231 min read
Dream Book
By Benjamin Harnett I’d been in a funk lately but I’m out of it now— write that in your dream book, why don’t you! What is it about the...
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Oct 4, 20234 min read
Orb, Floating in the Almond Groves
By Ken Meisel Off Highway 5, in the San Joaquin Valley, I spotted a gold finch, his yellow shoulders prideful, glorious, like poured...
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Oct 1, 20231 min read
This is the Very Moment You Have
By Ahrend Torrey —this moment swelling like a bulb before your eyes, holding Sun slowly illuminating the blinds. Do you hear the wren...
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Sep 27, 20231 min read
Some Flowers
By Benjamin Harnett Everything you think you know about some flowers is wrong, is what this bouquet seems to say, as we feed it to the...
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Sep 24, 20231 min read
Poppified
By Robert Rothman I know of no deeper orange than a poppy sprung in spring, cracking open hard earth on a slender green stem, all the...
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Sep 20, 20232 min read
advice to myself: first morning in Bogotá
By James Dewey measure the place with your own two feet count height & length & width with breath walk & run the streets to know...
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Sep 17, 20231 min read
We Are Stardust Meant to Shine
By King Grossman Through the gray blanketing clouds a breakthrough of silver stop and look stop everything when the blue dog is most low...
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Sep 13, 20231 min read
Carolina Wren
By Ahrend Torrey Had you slept-in this quiet Monday, you wouldn’t have heard it. Had you gone to the grocery, you wouldn’t...
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Mar 5, 20231 min read
Internal Medicine
By Lynn Glicklich Cohen A doctor’s waiting room—where everyone who came in after you is called first—is a fine place to inspect the...
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Feb 26, 20232 min read
One pie, hurry please
by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro I want you, my husband, in your nursing-home bed, no longer able to breathe while you chew, sustained on...
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Jan 29, 20232 min read
Jamaica Bay
by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro Hurricane Donna, September 1960 When the sea meets the bay, water bursts like a bomb over docks, breaks the...
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