Month: June 2023
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Mother’s Day
Her hand sought mine, and my heart flickered. A tsunami roared in the distance. I laid on the shore…
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Montevideo Water Crisis
Since the beginning of this decade, I’ve lived through a winter storm that caused cascading infrastructure failures in Austin, Texas,…
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Blackout Ceromancy
I see you as wick of this candle,dancing in the midst of its flame.Your moves erotic, yet most holy.Your face…
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Seiches
The meadow by the airportis just like any other grasslandbeneath the empyreal bluethat offers late afternoonsof sprawling blades of greendappled…
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Welcome to Summer School
We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. ~Ray BradburyNight kicks in the breaking sunrise as I turn onto BryantAvenue.…
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Don’t Sweat It
Jake, night custodian empties the waste basket,asks, tonight? I nod. Alone in my office, I waitto interview for the job.…
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Exchange, Cusp, and Delhi
ExchangeFriends jibe at mymusic consumptionin inscrutable tongues;I invoke their porn parity. CuspDayspring turns the mostunlovable towns endearingas pompous players plyoutside…
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People Haiku: Old Spice, Solo, Partisan & Time
Old Spicedying rich old mangets one final haircut, thencuts off all his heirs SoloWithout a partner,the deaf man dances evenwhen…
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No. 27, Strážnice
after Danusha LamerisThere was that morning we drove past stone gates into Strážnice, the green Skoda’s muffler ready to drop, …
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Kateřina
We brought her chrysanthemums. On Sunday mornings I filled a tin bucket from the loose steel spigot,carried it down pebbled…