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I had to take a good friend home to his parents he was manic collecting garbage in a rented room and arranging it believing a secret door to god would appear if he got the room just right if everything...
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I recognize myself least this week. I don’t think about writing, don’t care for it, I think about God is Love and mint it on my copper-nickel eyes where no great faces are minted, no great women I...
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Even polar, we graft together. I wrench my neck to sky. What grey. These are my articles of faith: the land conceiving food to feed our child. I’m a simple nun to that. We’ve no memory of thaw, but...
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One day, there will be no river. The things we think will kill us don’t—not the red-eyed asteroid, not the red-dust waters, not the ice age when I froze beneath the mirror of my sky and the slow, slow...
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Talk dirt to me. Tell how bluestem roots near thirty feet. How echinacea saves the bees. I ogle dandelions. Have I told you the things they can do to a body? Will you truss my grain mill to my bike?...
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Bodily. By kelp & wakame. By small, oily fish. To save an ocean, we will leave it. To save our ground, we’re planting bluestem, then burning. Being woman, I know to shed, to go toward new moon like...
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After our parents we were fffffffffffall mouth****a salt hunger. Led our animals on ropes jjjjjjjjjjjjthrough ashy streets gathering water****I carried mmmmyou****on my back the weather****a procession...
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“We were wanderers from the beginning…” chime the opening lines to Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Renowned astronomer Carl Sagan begins his book about exploring the cosmos with a...
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39 x 39 inches, twigs, wire, red tape, 2013 14 chickens per square meter inside a ventilated shed is considered free range in Australia. The USDA only requires that the animal has access to the...
View ArticleIssue Nine, October 2014
Introduction by guest curator Cecilia Llompart Verse: Ansley Clark – “Szeged” Aubrey Ryan – “The Way We Swear It,” “Best American Erotica,” “Lament of the Chinese Paddlefish,” and “Imbolc” Chesley...
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