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The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
February 25, 2025

I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.

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Caught by Chris Bullard
November 19, 2024

Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

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Second Winter Solstice During an Epidemic by Marianne Worthington
September 26, 2024

When my dog and I look at the sky we see haloes and fuzz, our sight clouded by a sameness.

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Beautiful Generative Machine by David Fowler
September 17, 2024

those humans came from different jobs in different cities in different decades of my life

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Desire Speaks by Alexandra Burack
September 11, 2024

I do not think of you with sea-green eyes, backlit by August sun.

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