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Tag: sky

“Hope is a Blue Jay” by Rebecca Johnson
Poetry

“Hope is a Blue Jay” by Rebecca Johnson

August 16, 2021August 15, 20211

I.As snow settles upon the landand brings with it crisp, frozen air,I’ll hear the cardinal’s jarring callas it echoes in my anxious mind. The cold …

“The Mosquito and the Bell Jar” by Carol Motta
Poetry

“The Mosquito and the Bell Jar” by Carol Motta

May 24, 2021June 30, 20210

Our balsa-sweet Mosquito flies low and slow into the burning sun, undetectable by radarI hear only air scratching past the belly of the holdNo bomb …

“thick crusts of midnight in the late Ordovician, a wilderness of morning elsewhere” by Kate Shannon
Poetry

“thick crusts of midnight in the late Ordovician, a wilderness of morning elsewhere” by Kate Shannon

February 28, 2021March 14, 20211

i.other things live easy, you knowI suppose I, too, live easy in some ways.a domination of oceans gatheringa braying of old bones, dust and then …

“On Perfumed Wings it Ascended” by Andrew Johnston
Fiction

“On Perfumed Wings it Ascended” by Andrew Johnston

September 21, 2020January 10, 20210

When the dragon first wound its way through the fragrant mist that swallowed the mountain, most had no reckoning of its nature. It was a …

“Horseshoes.” by DS Maolalai
Poetry

“Horseshoes.” by DS Maolalai

June 15, 2020August 19, 20200

somewhere up here  you might bite the whole horizon.  love pours in like an emptied sack of apples. tastes fresh  like apples, and smells  like …

“Dead Self thoughts reincarnated in words” by Stela Xega
Poetry

“Dead Self thoughts reincarnated in words” by Stela Xega

May 22, 2017August 19, 20200

Darling, listen. no matter what we do our fingers will end up blistered, our palms bloody if we look into the mirror long enough to …

“Twilight’s Drift” By Ken Allan Dronsfield
Poetry

“Twilight’s Drift” By Ken Allan Dronsfield

August 8, 2016August 25, 20202

Reason for waking, lofty faded dreams soft steps in grass eyes raised skyward Brisk breeze blows wind swirls on water geese march in air reality …

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