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  • Late March

    Joshua Bartell on Unsplash The brown tree’s tippedwith awkward swellings,dipped in coldish rain,waiting perfectly gray and bleak: come backin about a week. Anton Darius TheSollers on Unsplash

  • Words and Time and Souls

    Future conditional. Words are a miracle that we too often take for granted. We toss them around like Nerf balls, forgetting how essential they are for connecting us with the reality of people and things. And language — the way we weave those words together — reflects how we move through time. Language itself is a miracle, permeating our…

  • Hate to judge but love to condemn?

    Here’s what happens when we get it backward. Years ago, I was listening to a radio report of an impending local election on a special referendum. As I understood it, the city was going to vote on the Wet Bra Issue. Well, I was immediately offended, loudly proclaiming to my partner that this nonsense was…

  • Ozone

    reluctant poetry Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash Children run before the wind,bright of face and light of limb,taunting, never looking back,snubbing clouds and thunder black. And I have heard their wildish criesunderneath the soon-stormed skies. Do they fathom, as they go, the danger? Yes. They know. They know. Image by VIktor Forgacs on Unsplash © M.…

  • I have no milk

    Image by London Wood Co on Unsplash I have no milk to give the world;I have no blood or tears.I have no sweat to prove my work,my willingness to please; too long I toiled and strove and dreamedand no cathedrals rose. So what remains when I am pressed?Not riches; hardly those.I spent it all, held nothing…

  • How I’m Making My Own Rules

    Nine of them. And you can, too. Chalk lines show where home is. Image by Mark Duffel on Unsplash People often like to say they hate rules: they believe rules are made to be broken; rules are for fools and sheeple and chumps. At their best, those rule-breakers are wildly creative and productive, bringing fresh thinking to…

  • Time for the ultimate boycott

    Image by Anthony Easton on Flickr With actual boys You may recall Aristophanes’ classic Greek comedy, Lysistrata, in which Lysistrata and a critical mass of other women take action to end the seemingly endless Pelopponesian war. You probably didn’t read it in high school, because it’s pretty crude, but maybe in college. And if you have a…

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