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    I Marvel
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • May 19
    • 6 min

    I Marvel

    I marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in...
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    A Riff on Abstraction
    By Richard Katrovas
    • May 12
    • 1 min

    A Riff on Abstraction

    "Evil is the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete." —Sartre As in “concrete” as well as “abstract,” and though I...
    5 comments
    Edgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”
    By Mathew Ehret
    • May 11
    • 22 min

    Edgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”

    "What I here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die: — or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again...
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    Easter
    By Daniel Leach
    • Apr 16
    • 1 min

    Easter

    Here, where winter never really comes, How so, this vast profusion of wildflowers, These waves of jasmine sweet upon the wind, This hum...
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    Fingers of Light
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Apr 15
    • 1 min

    Fingers of Light

    Fingers of light peel away the hiddenness of badge-wearing sadists and Apache helicopter war crimes. Fingers of light peel away the lies...
    6 comments
    The Devil at Woodstock
    By Daniel Leach
    • Apr 1
    • 6 min

    The Devil at Woodstock

    I was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or someplace we had been told That a great...
    4 comments
    Telling the Bees About Journeys
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Feb 4
    • 1 min

    Telling the Bees About Journeys

    They met me coming up the concession to our lane after the bus’s flag stop. They were waiting in the bursts of asters, in milkweed pods...
    1 comment
    In That Final Moment
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Dec 6, 2021
    • 2 min

    In That Final Moment

    When the nukes start flying, when we see the mushroom cloud growing on the horizon, when reality comes crashing down in the most overt...
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    A Riff on Romantic Love
    By Richard Katrovas
    • Sep 17, 2021
    • 1 min

    A Riff on Romantic Love

    I do not need you like I do not need To read, or weep, or stew in nightly news. I do not need you like I do not need To whistle past the...
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    A Blessing for Everyone
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Sep 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Blessing for Everyone

    May all of your illusions be shattered beyond your ability to reassemble them. May you learn quickly from your failures and successes....
    3 comments
    True Blue
    By Gabriella Miller
    • Aug 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    True Blue

    The color before the sun rises, due east, as the horizon is painted with streaks from heaven like a stained brush across the celestial...
    4 comments
    Daphne and Apollo
    By James A. Tweedie
    • Jul 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Daphne and Apollo

    “O foolish Cupid,” fair Apollo mocked. “To think that you, a wanton boy, should dare To think yourself the equal to a man Of arms, or...
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    Welcome to Planet Earth
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Jun 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Welcome to Planet Earth

    Welcome to Planet Earth, where books written by dead men tell the living how to live. Where children who do not know how to live teach...
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    Aspire to Greatness (The Real Kind)
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Apr 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    Aspire to Greatness (The Real Kind)

    Aspire to greatness, but not the kind they teach you about in school. Not the kind where you can all be astronauts and presidents when...
    3 comments
    Cassandra
    By Terry Norton
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 3 min

    Cassandra

    Both beauty and intelligence were mine. But to what end? Of all the nineteen who Sprang from my mother’s fecund thighs, of daughters I...
    1 comment
    An Andalusian Dream
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Aug 31, 2020
    • 1 min

    An Andalusian Dream

    Over the sultry seas and snowy peaks, A rich and glowing sun appears, Creeping from out the craggy recesses And pouring through the...
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    Telling the Bees About Friendship
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Aug 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    Telling the Bees About Friendship

    As boys, we collected fireflies in Mason jars on summer nights, hoping as we waited for dreams in small rooms the shadows filled we’d be...
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    Telling the Bees About Love
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Jun 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    Telling the Bees About Love

    Her head was golden as honey in the morning light, soft-haired with a halo shimmering as if the dawn of a better day. Her breath reminded...
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    Dragon Wings & Other Poetry
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Mar 23, 2020
    • 2 min

    Dragon Wings & Other Poetry

    As close as I could get to the water, I took off my leather sandals to let my toes dangle in the reeds. I lay back with my head on a...
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    A Grief Observed
    By James A. Tweedie
    • Jun 4, 2018
    • 1 min

    A Grief Observed

    In dactylic hexameter Turgid the sea as it billows and foams in the face of the tempest. Wind-lifted wave-crests explode into diamonds...
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