Paradise
March 21, 2024
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Photo by Eric Tompkins on Unsplash by Melissa Llanes Brownlee The lion died the day the circus arrived. The asphalt of the old airport steamed the hay in its
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The Dead Guy’s Phone Keeps Calling Me
March 21, 2024
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Photo by Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash by Francine Witte I answer, same as always. Nightfingers sweaty and clamped around me like a fist I can’t shake out of.
Mealtimes in the Queendom of Deliciousness
March 21, 2024
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Photo by Krzysztof Niewolny on Unsplash by Sue Borgersen For luncheon, our bees feed on royal jelly they themselves have harvested from purple sweet peas. We feed our
What Your Guest Tells Herself While Gushing About Your Home
March 21, 2024
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Photo by Wilfried Santer on Unsplash by Lisa K. Buchanan The gleaming kitchen looks onto a terraced garden and handcrafted birdhouse. A granite countertop hosts museum-shop placemats, while
Phenomenology 101
March 7, 2024
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Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash by Jamy Bond My professor says that nothing exists outside of human consciousness. The sky is not really blue, the trees are not
Cut-through
March 7, 2024
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by Jude Higgins Time is the station clock at midnight when there are no taxis outside. Time is your wrist watch as you look at
Depression
March 7, 2024
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Photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash by Sarah Freligh The sun comes up, a glass that shatters when it breaks the horizon. You walk around farmers’ fields for
Night Watch
March 7, 2024
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Photo by David Babayan on Unsplash by Diane Gottlieb The tree outside my window lifts his dark limbs toward the moon. He thinks I don’t see him. He
The Damage Done
March 7, 2024
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Photo by Rizvi Rahman on Unsplash by Diane Gottlieb Paula’s in the attic, wearing fur-lined boots. A splinter lodged into her foot last time she braved the floorboards
And You Thought it Was Just a Headache
March 7, 2024
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Photo by Rizvi Rahman on Unsplash by Luanne Castle She pounces from a cliff, shocking me with her thoroughness and whirls me until I scream for mercy. She’s