Apocalyptics by C. Derick Varn Unlikely Books, February 2018 102 pages / Amazon Apocalyptics follows a trail to the human heart, lined with broken oak, willow and orchids, to…
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The therapy was supposed to be paid for by insurance. That was how I justified it to myself. How I ended up on a green couch inside a therapist’s office…
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Image Credit: Engin Akyurt from Pexels Entangled in sleep, Omar lay across the porch in front of the door like a sack of laundry. I nudged him softly with…
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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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* * * The Woodpecker He interrupts us with his staccato tap tapping, swivels his skunk crown to mock our quiet conversation. By now we assume all the rules are…
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After living in Portland, Oregon for six non-consecutive years, on April 10, two weeks after nearly the entire country went on lockdown, I drove cross country and moved back in…
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* * * Short Story I saw the third egg there, split open, pink, plastic, half drowning in mud, and thought for a second about saving it, but instead stared…
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The Snow Dead by Marc Zegans Červená Barva Press, March 2020 30 pages / Amazon Since poetry falls into a sacred realm for me, I tend to avoid reading—as…
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DEC 3 garlic coconut milk green onions rice noodles avocado bread spring mix …
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Image Credit: paper.prankster Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” –Psalms 133 When my 11-year-old daughter informed me that she wanted…
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Both literary criticism and memoir, Alden Jones’s The Wanting Was a Wilderness serves to deconstruct the craft through Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild, and to construct her own narrative. It begins…
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It is a strange thing to have attended an all-male high school, and have hugged nearly my entire class—an intimacy that exploded during the sign of peace at school masses,…
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Brute by Emily Skaja Graywolf Press, April 2020 72 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of Poets, Brute peels back the…
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With branch and root and raining mirrors down all the doors in cavesnakings down the clouds the cliffs the creeks where floratubes thump satin blood in purple petals spinning and…
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