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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 12 min read
Dark Early Morning
Diamond-bright, Jupiter rides the moon’s crown,
Distant harmony describing the immeasurable,
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Jul 292 min read
Pharaoh's Daughter
And years from now, she’ll tell herself
this was a moment—a moment
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Jul 171 min read
The Fruit Market
your plum-rounded
face and your plum-
darkened pupils, soft
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Jul 152 min read
Summer 2024: Editor's Note
A summer note from our Editor!
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Jul 141 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 52 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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Jun 241 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 71 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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May 311 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 272 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 262 min read
As always, begin again…
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
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Jan 141 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 101 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 75 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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Dec 27, 20232 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 13, 20232 min read
Cruceiro
by Paula Rodriguez Hidden in the magical forests of the Spanish North West, there is a place where one river makes love to the Atlantic...
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Dec 10, 20231 min read
Selah
By Birdie Marie Rodriguez She sailed away on the feathers of a heavenly thing that broke me. Selah. There is a wonder in the sorrow of...
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Dec 6, 20231 min read
Miracle
By Ahrend Torrey Me writing this poem is not just me writing this poem, it’s the whole human race having made it through some of the...
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Dec 3, 20232 min read
Pruning Rose Bushes in Early December
By Robert Rothman You won’t perish, any more than the rose bush will, though when the looper shears off a cane, ringing out like a shot,...
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