In my kids’ yoga classroom on the Lower East Side, two hundred elementary school girls still in their uniforms take the shape of a cow. Knees under hips, hands under…
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Dear Marshall, Language is Our Only Wilderness by Heather Sweeney Spuyten Duyvil, June 2020 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 84 pages – poetry Encountering Heather Sweeney’s poetry is like…
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* * * Tillandsia Tillandsia; quiet birds of the forests, Perched and flocked ‘tween ebbing bark, of arboreal tenements; nests, of tropical richness where dreams embark. “What of life do…
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Chapter of possible or impossible endings: My brother steadies his mental state with mega doses of B vitamins and fish oil. He sleeps in an enclosed space and washes his…
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We have no neighbors across the street, save the red fox and the gray fox, the mulberry trees, and the bunnies. This spring, rather suddenly, the mulberry trees fruited in…
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Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres Copper Canyon Press, April 2020 Bookshop / Amazon 94 pages – Poetry When I pick up a new book, the first thing I usually…
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* * * Attention I did not plan to see the heron landing on the bank of the pond at dusk, but he came anyway, circling the edge of the…
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Image Credit: Lee Seung Ho The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesan Mama is a jomnyeo. Her breath is her livelihood. She…
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* * * I worry about the birds in a rain like this. Where do they go? Someone told me once that in a bad storm seabirds ride the…
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M-Theory by Tiffany Cates Baobab Press, February 2021 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon (preorder) 302 pages – fiction When the pandemic began, I was completely alone. My husband was…
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Image Credit: Side-street in Staroměstská, Prague. Taken on B&W Fomapan 400 by Lu Gallagher. On a Sunday evening in Malostranská, returning from Shakespeare a Synové where I had just…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayWOVEN: My Precious: On Leaving My Abusive Ex-Husband and Being Left with the Ring
WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Danger Days by Catherine Pierce Saturnalia Books, October 2020 SPD / Bookshop / Amazon 88 pages – Poetry Catherine Pierce begins her newest collection at the end of the…
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* * * Vultures High in the cottonwood fingered wings bend the air, the swoosh of black wool robes. * * * Day’s End, Twoloon Lane Who cooks…
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