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Plant Food by D. W. Baker
I would be a plant in your garden and be happy for a short life, hearing nothing but your thoughtless song, watching you feel the sun...
Mar 22, 20231 min read


Sextant by Debra Mihalic Staples
In 1905, Mina Benson Hubbard led a successful expedition across the Labrador wilderness, then published A Woman’s Way Through Unknown...
Mar 19, 20232 min read


Allahabad, Almost Winter by Jayant Kashyap
after Jack Gilbert* We come home every morning after a walk, small marks of sweat in the underarms of our t-shirts; our lips entering the...
Mar 15, 20231 min read


Keeper of Magic by Emily Holi
Oops! usually followed by a wink. A few times a month. How do you keep them all straight? Weekly, probably. Have you ever heard of...
Mar 12, 20233 min read


FIG TREE FRUITING ALONG THE RAMAPO FAULT by McCaela Prentice
I want to push our cities together like tectonic plates. under a fig tree in Greenpoint the light is looking strangled and my dress in...
Mar 8, 20231 min read


The Friends You Had Before You Had Friends by Jeanine Skowronski
They were heart-shaped lollipops stuck to your jumper, black raindrops splattered up your calves and across the hem of your Sunday best...
Mar 5, 20232 min read


Cold moon murmur by Annie Cowell
As the moon lifts her swollen self into the dulling sky, some ancient stirring pulls me to the wilderness, where, like an augur, I root...
Mar 1, 20231 min read


Lifting Up the Log #6: "A Splitting Open" by Alaina Scarano
How did you come up with the title? It came to me as I thought of the parallels between birth and sexual intercourse, between being a...
Feb 24, 20232 min read


Grief Poem by Bhavya Bhagtani
My mother knows a trick that turns grief to sugar and she hides it all in her ageing spine. Last winter, a sadness drenched my father-...
Feb 1, 20231 min read


Cancer Diary, Geese by Jack B. Bedell
Why do the geese cross the road to the clinic? To get to the other side where the grass is taller and full of feed. They have no idea how...
Jan 25, 20231 min read


Autumn Walk by Christina E. Petrides
The fallen leaves scatter like chickens. A squadron of ducks floats on the river, silently paddling upstream, hunting among the rocks and...
Jan 18, 20231 min read


A Charming Coterie by Catherine O'Brien
Less make-believe and more, belief-making - is the sea’s love for me. Under a commotion of jealous stars, it rushes around me emptying...
Jan 11, 20232 min read


How Should a Person Be by Emma Burger
Emma Burger is a writer, healthcare professional, and end-of-life doula. She splits her time between Ann Arbor, Michigan and New York...
Jan 4, 20231 min read


Listening to Snail Shells by Faye Brinsmead
The restaurant is called La Petite Escargot. When the chef’s daughter starts learning French, she tells him the name is wrong. “Escargot”...
Dec 21, 20221 min read


haiku for the stickbug as an artist by Jack Apollo Hartley
In whorls of tea-grass, here is where he’d stripe his line of spotted brindle. Born of a paintball ootheca—spread to splatter, hundreds...
Dec 14, 20221 min read


To the Dusky Slug (Arion Subfuscus) by Erin Bryant Petty
You are gorgeous, actually in ochre and gold the way the light holds you, glowing like a firefly under frosted glass, the ripple of your...
Dec 7, 20221 min read
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[I've always lived by water] by Sharmila Voorakkara & Ron Riekki
I’ve always lived by water so that means there’s always been an exit. The promise of distance slipped under my skin, so I can barely...
Nov 30, 20221 min read


impatiens capensis by nat raum
i hate to wear orange but i can never resist picking the jewelweed flowers which dot the green of county riverbanks—one of five or so...
Nov 23, 20221 min read


More Like the Bat by Wren Donovan
Hollow like the leg bone of a bird Fragile like the finger bones of bats Both options offer lightness and allow for flight. Spaces ribbed...
Nov 16, 20221 min read


Brontë by Alyssa Walker
The way your chicken pox scar looks like my name, tattooed across your heart. I joke it’s intentional, you love me, can’t live without...
Nov 9, 20221 min read
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