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An Observation of Birds

Melissa Nunez — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Three Pieces: Cold, Flow, & The Kiss

Cassandra Sarah Pegg — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Today I learnt that wasps die inside of figs

Rachel Smith — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 03:00:00 +0000

not a bee but a wasp resting in the womb of a fig reproductive sweetness will eat at my wings I made my bed in this sugary brain hanging from a tree, a family of ripe shrunken heads but it sort of spoils a fruit salad to know they’re made of death my mother was…

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Wollemia

Jennifer Harrison — Wed, 31 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000

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Flowers Off Her Tongue

Alison Heron Hruby — Tue, 30 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000

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Imago

Brady Riddle — Mon, 22 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000

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The Prairie

Kelly Burdick — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:00:00 +0000

Leafhopper on a leadplant: stuck to a stem thrust through dirt chafing beneath bluestem that whispers, “wildfire.” The leafhopper does not understand. I will devour the meadow, yet nymphs will still see sun. The nature of things: light licks grass, bugs crawl and sing, I devour and am consumed in return. Even without the snap…

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Grasshopper

Ken Anderson — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 03:00:00 +0000

By chance, I discovered you in the little oasis of the clay pot where the parrot feather of a miniature palm tree grew. At a glance, I thought another palm had shot up overnight. You were both odd flames of the same green fire. Only, you could leap breath- takingly high, with wings for fronds,…

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Days Pass As Spring Blooms

Sakina Qazi — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 03:00:00 +0000

originally published in Morning Fruit Magazine I. beside the blackberry bush below a soft film of dusk as the thrush whistles, we sit to wash our wounds. II. each star is unpinned and the fledgling dawn ascends, as we shed the gauze and once more put bleeding foot after bleeding foot on the dandelion trails.…

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What Is Not There

Sandra Salinas Newton — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:00:00 +0000

originally published in Vita Brevis (online), July 2021 It is still there just below the surface Under the sand under the rocks under the sea Under the infinite sky What the mourning dove cries to the sun and clouds What the honeysuckle clings to for strength and scent What each green and yearning thing in…

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