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Nov 9, 20201 min read
Secret Midtown Garden
by LindaAnn LoSchiavo Our first apartment bordered ugly Hell’s Kitchen, a place for hanging your head out The window, yelling for...
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Nov 6, 20201 min read
A Plague of Emmanuels
by Chris Haven It came first to the waters. The shores thicken, nothing like life. Frogs, lice, biting flies. The buzz then the darkening...
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Nov 4, 20201 min read
As It Should Be
by DonD.S. Martin When diverse colours in a forest blend the greens like olive emerald lime & jade the yellow of the daisies which...
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Nov 2, 20201 min read
Transfiguration
by Amy Nemecek We followed him to the top of this great, high Mountain, grew heavy-eyed, footsore. I stuck one of those barking dogs into...
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Oct 26, 20201 min read
House
by Ace Boggess No cable TV. No internet. No power this morning. Gas leak, gas leak, gas leak— how the walls begin to speak through their...
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Oct 6, 20201 min read
Psalm for the Fallen Women
by Laura Sweeney For the French teacher who drank herself into oblivion; for the nurse who couldn’t go through the courts because she was...
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Oct 5, 20201 min read
Sober
By Marjorie Maddox “If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present...
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Oct 2, 20202 min read
One Handful with Tranquility
by Laura Reece Hogan The time of April ticks onward outside, on the hills, in the chaparral, under sagebrush, an awakening from the ashes...
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Sep 30, 20201 min read
Communion
by Trivarna Hariharan Standing still— an autumn tree embraces the joy of all it receives from the earth. Trivarna Hariharan is a student...
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Sep 23, 20201 min read
Still Have Anger Issues with the Past
by Ace Boggess I dreamt my old boss into being. Twenty years invisible, & here she came, her unimpassioned face, stone jaw, tone flat as...
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Sep 14, 20201 min read
Descended into Hell
by Greg Huteson On the slate gray plain, paused when jabbed by rain bloodying as darts, I rub pricked parts hard with soggy hands, mull...
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Sep 1, 20201 min read
Duet
by Claude Wilkinson Anything miraculous, we try to rationalize, to explain in terms of less thrilling science. For example, I give you...
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Aug 30, 20201 min read
Lydia’s Song
By Laura Sweeney (Acts 16: 13-15) I am the merchant of purple cloth, washing and wishing well the women─ battered mad abandoned women. I...
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Aug 28, 20201 min read
Ode to Meditation
by Marjorie Maddox When all else goes, I welcome you in, pull you close; skin to skin. I welcome you in. Ban the banter. Skin to skin,...
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Aug 26, 20201 min read
Elegy
By Trivarna Hariharan I know a bird who gave up her life longing for a spring that could never return. Trivarna Hariharan is a student...
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Aug 24, 20201 min read
Marvels for Fisherfolk
by Greg Huteson The curiosity of stones above gray-banded surf, so neatly swept by tides with driftwood flecks and shells. The queerly...
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Aug 19, 20201 min read
Villanelle for my Son
by Tania Runyan You cried because you dropped a butter knife. Everything I do is stupid and wrong! I want to reach into your...
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Aug 17, 20201 min read
The Lawn-care Man Has Whitman’s Beard
By Ace Boggess No hat. Sunburnt, mud-flecked cheeks. He works hard, trimming bushes into elephants, piling leaves, digging a trench by...
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Aug 14, 20201 min read
Summer Eclipse
by Sheila Murray-Nellis Every day for weeks smoke muffles the mountains. Particulate on the incoming breath flattens each hue to haze, as...
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Aug 12, 20201 min read
On Blue Mountains
by Michael Dechane The wind from the west is still unmaking these mountains: each branch and blade tip points toward the sea, the sun...
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