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Apr 17, 20221 min read
Praise Song for Adverse Noise Conditions
by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza Praise the sirenwail, the barking that accompanies the fire whistle, that whips itself into howling for its own...
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Apr 10, 20222 min read
Holy Week
by Jenna K Funkhouser I. this is the night we walk backwards into blindness into silence this is the daybreak we bear unrecognized...
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Apr 3, 20221 min read
Oar
by Daniel Rattelle Fishing-drunk in the Connecticut and no miraculous catch, you row for home. What short thrusts from stern to bow you...
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Mar 27, 20221 min read
Vespers
by Laurie Klein In God’s backyard, roosting birds reawaken the old throes interred within us—personal heartland, tangled as any natural...
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Mar 20, 20221 min read
First Spring, 2021
by Andrew J. Calis Greens and blues, the yellow light turns red spreading itself across the floor of the chapel. And warms through the...
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Mar 6, 20221 min read
Caterpillar
by Susan Francino I didn’t ask the caterpillar with its antennae tangled criss-cross in a cobweb if it wanted to be healed, but when I...
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Feb 27, 20222 min read
Doorways
by Jenna K Funkhouser Wind ripples off the shaggy tops of mesquite trees and threads a ribbon of bending grass. The ground is stern and...
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Feb 20, 20221 min read
Whimbrels
by Laura Klein . . . a long obedience in the same direction . . . —Friedrich Nietzche From the get go, two habitual waders rise—the...
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Feb 6, 20221 min read
Ocular Migraine with Waterbirds
by Joshua Jones I heard you call my name. The wire of your voice pulled tight through the hallway. Expecting to find you marooned on the...
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Jan 23, 20224 min read
Suffer the Little Children
By Julie L. Moore Along the Rio Grande, in Ciudad Juárez, amid the high Chihuahuan...
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Jan 16, 20221 min read
Verge
By Laurie Klein Hovering clouds, more sting than mist, feel akin to ice, forced through a sieve, Salmon River below us, all teem and...
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Jan 9, 20222 min read
One night when I am gone
by JM Jordan Step out on the back porch of some getaway, some house nestled among low historic hills, where you have found yourself among...
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Jan 2, 20222 min read
Brother Frank Walks the Abbey Woods
by Brian Volck All I know is that it happens unexpectedly: how the forest trail, dim even under still leafless limbs, abruptly yields to...
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Dec 5, 20211 min read
Advent 1
by Russell Rowland Candles will be there at my windows, as late as certain shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. No angels...
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Sep 24, 20211 min read
Quotidian Fever
by Naomi Bess Leimsider Two spikes a day; the heat slams through me. Doubles down, bends around, catches sudden and quick. Then nothing...
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Sep 21, 20213 min read
Valentine w/a Sentence Inside it
by Ken Meisel Some valentines have sentences in them first. That’s why everything I loved, in one moment, changed when you interrupted...
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Sep 15, 20212 min read
Driving There and Back
by Luci Shaw Between generous fields of ripe cranberries and the gleam of corn stubble we drive toward the base of Sumas Mountain, a...
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Sep 12, 20212 min read
Purple
by Jeff Gundy Years ago I decided not to fight every battle, not to dive into black holes or drive through floodwaters, not to pin my...
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Sep 9, 20211 min read
Forgiveness
by Peter Grandbois In the end, there is mostly exhaustion, And wine like blood in this webbing dusk, The scavenger wind playing its...
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Aug 22, 20211 min read
Psalm 8
By Mark Watney O Lord our Shaper1 your name is whirled through all the world Your greatness heaves2 beyond heaven It catches in...
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