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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 13, 20221 min read
Decades Later, You Misremember Wildflowers
by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza Maybe borage, rock rose; maybe wild carrot, gorse. In retrospect, daisy, poppy, marigold. Some miscalculation...
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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 30, 20221 min read
A Child’s Grief
by Mary Redman (after Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins) We entered Yellowstone, and you gaped at charred tree trunks, where acre...
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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 19, 20211 min read
Winter Solstice
by Cortney Davis –December 21, 2020 Tonight the air had the scent of earth, of dust, like old books in a sunlit library rarely used. We...
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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 26, 20211 min read
Silent Chorus
by Jody Collins Dust echoes with his not-voice, the fingered sentence setting her free. Onlookers speechless, he bends again to slice...
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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 29, 20211 min read
Hidden Life in Nazareth, by Ivonka Demchuk
by Jenna K. Funkhouser An east wind, she might have thought as she splayed the wooden beams and divided their garments Brushed aside the...
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Aug 24, 20218 min read
To Arrive Where I Started
by Bethany Getz When my twin brother Nathan and I were eight, he asked my parents if he could play recreational soccer. After the first...
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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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Aug 20, 20211 min read
Go Out and Play
by Russell Rowland To the diffident little boy who is my soul: white birches hold out their limbs to you, black flies can hardly...
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