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  • Another Day at Sea
    Poetry by Brian Christopher Giddens How the body aches in the morning.But what to do? Bed needs making,dog wants walking,… Read more: Another Day at Sea
  • Speak to Me of Spring
    Poetry by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro When I was little, my middle sister’s facegrew milky. Her thin body swayed, then waftedto… Read more: Speak to Me of Spring
  • Joy
    Poetry by Alexandra Newton Rios As the sun sets red behind river birch, oak and elmstill copper and yellow only… Read more: Joy
  • Morning at the Marsh
    Nonfiction by Susan Pope In early May at the shorebird festival in Homer, Alaska, I was invited to read my… Read more: Morning at the Marsh
  • Trajectory
    Poetry by Matt Zambito The Moon grounds me so muchthat the pressure leaves meas if a pile of stable dust,… Read more: Trajectory
  • Coorong
    Nonfiction by Roger Funston Today I walk a sixteen kilometer transect over coastal dunes and along brackish lagoons. We are… Read more: Coorong
  • Sudden Picnic
    Poetry by James Penha enjoy life my husband says poolsideas he sets down the sandwichesand salad he invented to help… Read more: Sudden Picnic
  • Sunflowers
    Poetry by Natasha Abell-Cwietkow The thing about the sunflowersSat on the shelf, the ones that gaze at the streetFrom their… Read more: Sunflowers
  • Make a U-Turn
    Poetry by Diana Raab The morning’s alarm sounds,your copper-colored poodle scratcheson glass door—time for his morning pee. With phone in… Read more: Make a U-Turn
  • Tourbillion
    Poetry by Carole Greenfield And didn’t we spark, didn’t we spin in our different skies,the first time we unearthed veins… Read more: Tourbillion

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