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Art Dept by Sean Bw Parker
Art

Art Dept by Sean Bw Parker

October 7, 2024October 7, 20240

Art Dept (Watercolour, acrylic, pencil and ink on canvas) by Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday

“Fever Dream” by Rebecca M Ross
Poetry

“Fever Dream” by Rebecca M Ross

May 30, 2022May 29, 20220

Rona piles rice from path to porch like snowdrifts sprinkled with crayon colored carrots, peas, corn– until the guardrail disappears under an ever-growing mountain  of …

“Lava” by Cameron Morse
Poetry

“Lava” by Cameron Morse

May 13, 2022May 8, 20220

From my hurt back the snow-lit predawn sky is pewter, or lava, according to my best guess color chart on Pinterest. “Pewter” works, but I …

“Pandemic Yoga” by Judith Beth Cohen
Fiction / Micro

“Pandemic Yoga” by Judith Beth Cohen

March 25, 2022March 20, 20220

At the Senior Center, we challenge stereotypes about old ladies. We practice yogaoutdoors for “social distance.” If it starts to drizzle, we ignore it. If …

“The prison is like a Victorian asylum” by Robin Wyatt Dunn
Non-Fiction

“The prison is like a Victorian asylum” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

December 31, 2021December 26, 20211

The prison is like a Victorian asylum, and carefully arranged. The grounds are tastefully laid out, each tree with its own hillock of greeenery and …

“Pennies for Pilgrims” by Julie Allyn Johnson
Poetry

“Pennies for Pilgrims” by Julie Allyn Johnson

August 9, 2021August 8, 20210

Julie Allyn Johnson, a sawyer’s daughter from the American Midwest, began writing poetry after her retirement from IT work in 2017. She loves hiking, gravel-travel …

“The Shape of the Laugh in Your Throat” by Edie Meade
Non-Fiction

“The Shape of the Laugh in Your Throat” by Edie Meade

May 14, 2021December 6, 20241

From downstairs I hear you playfully yell “panties!” with the tantrum-bound toddler who is disemboweling my underwear drawer. By the shape of the laugh in …

“now in the park july no–” by Robin Wyatt Dunn
Poetry

“now in the park july no–” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

January 8, 2021January 5, 20211

now in the park july no– no parks are left. we survive inside the maelstrom of infinity, a glitch inside the program of identity late …

“Moving Among the Changes” by Tim Suermondt
Poetry

“Moving Among the Changes” by Tim Suermondt

September 4, 2020September 11, 20200

The aspirations of man are simpler— a plate of fruit, a bottle of wine and my wife about to cook a chef’s dinner from disparate …

“As We Know It” by Marco Etheridge
Fiction

“As We Know It” by Marco Etheridge

July 31, 2020August 29, 20201

You pause in the center of the footbridge, a silver-bright ribbon running beneath you, gravel paths serpentine under the locust trees that define the banks …

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