Curiosa, Grande (detail) by Marta Czok. https://www.fondazionemartaczok.com/ The interviewer arrived ten minutes late, which was not a good start. She introduced herself as Pauline, and looked twentyish, and disoriented.…
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featured photo by Ama Bucher / @amaluegt * * * Sisterbird, barn owl screeches, scratches, knocks and knocks – now I spoiled it. All a muddle. Just came out. Sorry.…
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featured photo by Kelsey Keaton * * * This is our home, this large marble tomb. One way or another, we’ve all been brought here to share in something.…
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featured photo by Chris F. from Pexels It is late May and I find a possum surrounded by turkey vultures in the street. The morning light peters in greys and…
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* * * Autumn Elegy Yesterday, the clouds hung like velvet. Blackbirds descended upon the gold leafed tree and clattered rusty cries. With a silent signal, they burst into the…
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Marion’s brother is dead. Marion slouches to the department store––slanting rain; it’s rained for weeks––and buys little screws, the smallest files on offer, little hammers and copper wire so fine…
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It was still light out when Darcy, Kerry, and I left Kerry’s mother’s house: a one level, newly built house in a neighborhood filled with one level newly built homes,…
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* * * Ruminate tea-stained clouds steep in today’s sky of porcelain blue weak tannic breeze bubbles with August heat robins bounce_____across the lawn _______rusty orange__breasted female___pauses crooks her head________plunges…
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* * * When I let the soft animal of my body love what it loves —after Mary Oliver it falls from the sky like one of Mary Oliver’s…
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Before Baba Oma was Baba Oma, third cousin to the witch Baba Yaga, she was a little Polish-German girl with birds for hands. Her left hand was a small bluebird,…
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The Bird at Townsend and Harrison I pass the big house at Townsend and Harrison every day, and I always see this beautiful parrot in its cage by the window.…
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* * * Thistle Dump Armistice I waited in Middlesex, ordered a Guinness at the Inn. Sea of crisis, south serpent. Lake of Perseverance, Lake of Death. I don’t know…
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On my way home from school, I stalk the family pharmacy between the bus stop and my rented rowhouse in Stoneybatter—an “up-and-coming” historic neighborhood in Dublin, Ireland, where Wi-Fi networks…
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* * * We Are Saved by a Mysterious Bird on the Shores of Lake Superior We attend Michigan State University in a fog ________barely daring to exit_____or enter clinging…
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