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Selfie Becoming a Sea Turtle by Edie Meade

December 2, 2023

How embarrassing to meet anyone on a beach, under the moon.

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Nights You Lay in Bed the Drunks Below by Blas Falconer

November 27, 2023

You never saw the hurricanes of late summer hit shore, only the swell before, the still surface after

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Sharpening the Old Skates by Jim Daniels

November 20, 2023

Under a single floodlight, we skated through the dark part, our breath visible, the ice holding us together.

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Subterranean by T. De Los Reyes

November 7, 2023

I fall behind to capture what remains of the sunlight.

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Line by Nicholas Molbert

November 6, 2023

I am eight again, alone with nobody but my father and a dinner's-worth of trout stiff-spined in the ice chest.

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