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Reconnecting In Boddam

River Snowdrop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

i imagine the whales, the tall slick of them; where lichen sucker and chew bone-white carcass, these live rarities dance in spiral under crystalline waves. beige islands beget seabirds, curiosity. i have my fish messily eaten, a damage, i have my own teeth picking out spears. man fears meat. fears fear. he told me solemn-eyed,…

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Reverie For Old Pines

Emerson Riter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

My muscles sang when I pushed myself out of Mitzy’s outworn Ford pickup. She had jabbered like a Steller’s jay about how she was so happy I was finally home, and how she and the others had thought I’d never come back, and how Debbie-Ann down the cutoff road’s husband had died and why she…

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Living Vibrancy

B Center — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Chemical Weathering

Chloé Eathorne — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Alchemy, duckweed. Brine‑veiled, a delicate corrosion, neither green nor blue, the space in between—like oxidized lullabies. A surface reaction. Sun-damaged plastic lawn chairs. A ruptured glaze, motion under sky and salt. Furred blush. A bruise grown fond of itself. For balance, green weight laid over stone, like a cool hand on the fever of old…

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Jólakötturinn

Emma Wells — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

He roamed at large, hungry and evil In the freezing Yule snow. In every home People shuddered at his name. Jólin koma (featuring the poem, Jólakötturinn) written by Jóhannes úr Kötlum and translated into English by Hallberg Hallmundsson. Hundreds of thousands of deaths lay heavily on my conscience. Children – all. I have played foully, most foully,…

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Advent Calendar

Kris Szewczyk — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Apistry

David Milley — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Summer: Smoker in hand, Warren moves from hive to hive. At each entrance, he pumps the bellows once to quiet the bees. The chisel end of the hive tool pries off the top of the box. He leans the top against the side of the hive and pumps more smoke over the bees. They remain…

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The Sports Stars, Role Models, And True Heroes of 1973

Kevin Finnerty — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000

We didn’t own a vehicle designed for road trips because we hardly took any, and Dad’s car wasn’t designed to handle off-road travel because he never strayed from highways or city streets, but Mom had insisted we do this. The Dodge Aspen expressed its anger for the deviation from the norm by kicking up so…

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Evening At Hartmannswillerkopf

Kate Hill-Charalambides — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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For my Homeboy, Charles Simic, and John Berryman, reading the Odyssey

Dan Murphy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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