* * * Yesterday, rain brushed every window white, locking us deeper inside. Today, birds mouth mats of mud. In crevices under the deck, the robin is too obvious a…
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1. Once upon a time a young girl lives her life free from the constraint of clothing. She is vulnerable, as you might expect. Perhaps even unaware of her vulnerability…
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An owl lives in the sweet gum, and tonight it has flown to our rooftop. Its calls float down to me—low and hollow—like curls of carrot peels around a bowl.…
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* * * First it was the birds, but it may as well have started in the dirt, with the bugs, or out in the fields, the pests rooting stalk-side.…
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Starlings lead me through the hills, only to vanish; sunlight shrouds itself in passing clouds, cracks of mystery, the lung-luring air of a November afternoon sucks me into a black…
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Wind Chimes with Birds Prisms of Jell-O green glass soft clang, three metal crows rest and sometimes dance in Autumn wind, permanent residents who will not decamp to a foreign…
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THE FALCON The falcon floated above the treetops On my birthday, Hovered in equilibrium Before it plunged As if air Were endless. Again it rose, And soared, and dived, Braking…
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[Image Credit: “Heart Of Birds, La Scarlatte Illustration] I never liked birds. I suppose it’s because my father used to keep them in a shoebox in the freezer. He collected them…
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This is the twenty-eighth installment of Entropy’s small press new releases feature. If you are a small press and would like to see your upcoming titles listed here in the…
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Hello — we have the twenty-first installment of Entropy’s small press new releases ready for you! If you are a small press and would like your upcoming releases to be…
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Bird by Noy Holland Counterpoint Press, 2015 176 pages – Counterpoint / Amazon The first ‘bird’ in Noy Holland’s Bird, a debut novel—though ‘debut’ seems just wrong for this high…
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Sam Sax is a 2015 NEA Fellow and finalist for The Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He’s a poetry Fellow at The Michener Center for Writers where he serves as…