There’s beauty and complexity all around us.
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In the Alaskan Tundra
It’s almost midnight and sun still polishes air like rosin over bow. The day stretches wider
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Welcome to the World
— Stacy J. Maddox
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In the Village
Always smoke puffing up from grids, rumble below, rattle of store windows above,
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Moonlight & Water
— Mia Rose
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Padnos
Padnos, old Jew stands outside his junkyard’s office and smiles at the proceedings
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Blue Bulbs
You threw missiles at me as if you were a Gazan and I an Israeli farmer in my chicken house lit by blue bulbs stuffing live chickens into cages in the dead of night So this is what we have come to You took over my life, you cried You took everything that…
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Love Is Greater, Savannah, Georgia
— Jennifer Crider
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Survival of the Fittest
Wilted until doused with water absorbing quickly into your soil. Your stem grows Crooked in awkward slant damaged from a fall, from birth or replanting. Yet still tall, taller than neighbors huddled in their sameness, blossoms competing for the sun’s affection. Yet you with crooked roots soaring higher and higher each day, not just to…
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Lost
My fear is if I don’t find myself now — I will float aimlessly in the Afterworld grasping at others’ souls to claim an identity. Will I be nothing and everything all at once? Will I lose a self I never had to begin with? —Nikole Rodriguez-Wilson
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Forget me Knot
Anna Wellman Rybat
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