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Jan 6, 20211 min read
The Stargazer’s Prayer for the Dead
By Seth Jani The body will disappear along with the amplitudes of desire, the dark cravings. But not the softness, the low pink hum, the...
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Dec 30, 20201 min read
Access
By Nora Kirkham We pull over at the field towards the church, slip under wires, clamber over crackled walls. You wade into a chamber of...
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Dec 28, 20201 min read
St Marvan and the White Boar
by Christine Valters Paintner The holy man wanders the forest, in search of a place he can hear pine needles drop, and seeds crack open...
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Dec 22, 20201 min read
Light
by Ahrend Torrey Where do we go from here? Where do we turn? I say stay and watch the hummingbird, buzz the air. I suppose it knows where...
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Dec 21, 20201 min read
Winter Trees
by Seth Jani The big fires have been burning for days. The messengers of cosmic time just touching the mountain. The doors open. The...
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Dec 18, 20201 min read
Now it is just the light that’s left to solve
by Christina Lee and we have scattered it all across the kitchen table. At least a hundred pieces left, so we sit for a few minutes...
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Dec 16, 20202 min read
Fire Scripture
by Bruce Bond The death gods do not live here anymore. Codex after codex left the Mayan shores for the cities of Europe by whose names we...
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Dec 13, 20201 min read
St Gobnait and the Bees
by Christine Valters Paintner She treasures their golden gift, mixing herbs to make medicine for sisters with coughs, guests with aches,...
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Dec 8, 20201 min read
Sometimes, I accidentally drown myself
by Alexandra Corinth I was born underwater no legs, gills folded into my pudgy neck before the reef was scorched by the sun and the surf...
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Dec 7, 20201 min read
Snowfall
by Sheila Murray-Nellis I long for you: the snowflakes kiss my eyelids and layer white on white by my feet. How you sparkle all about me,...
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Dec 3, 20201 min read
St. Gertrude of Nivelles, in Childhood
by JC Reilly In the linden grove beside the stream a soft-eyed girl in weeds bends down to see a cat near death, his fur like cream and...
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Dec 1, 20201 min read
Hosios Loukas, on the Slopes of Mount Helicon
by David Swerdlow In this story of the hermit saint, one stoic thorn from the rose honors the responsible with blood and pain. The...
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Nov 29, 20201 min read
Basho’s Ghost
by Charles Kell A cold eel on a fish- monger’s shelf, half moon broken in the window. We were drawn to study this poorly supported art,...
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Nov 25, 20203 min read
The Faith to Float
by Ellen Deitz Tucker That we do not fall between the wide-spaced atoms plotting edge and surface in our world— that the world itself...
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Nov 23, 20201 min read
JUDACULLA ROCK
by Don Russ North CarolinaState Archaeological Site 31JK3 The heavens mapped? The spent mind of a wanderer mapped back upon his silent...
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Nov 20, 20201 min read
Chrysalis
by Maggie Edwards She was old⎼so old she crusted over, and the crust smelt like decay⎼that senior home reek of fish bones and too long...
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Nov 18, 20201 min read
The Architect Disbelieves
by Anna Elkins Beneath Rue d’Enfer, Paris There is no weather down here. It’s old & warm, always. The lantern light soaks into stone, the...
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Nov 16, 20201 min read
Relics
by J C Scharl I. It’s water does this to wood: petrifies the honeyed grain so time runs off the light-shot stone like rain, leaving...
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Nov 13, 20201 min read
In Front of the Candles
by Jane Beal My dearest friend did not die when I was in España, despite the brain surgery – a fact worth remembering. I had felt so...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read
The Deer
by Brandi Willis Schreiber I write to you, for the first time, after the year’s long ache. Do you remember our walk ending in ochre...
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