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HVHA

April 22, 2025
Nick Fiorentino
Have you ever felt your heart beat align with the kick? Or the hits make your eardrums tickle, the special...
Science
Man on mountaintop.

All day I dream of being free

March 25, 2025
Nick Fiorentino
The sun is out The DJ’s on But the most profound Is when it’s all gone
Legs running

Apropos Running

March 11, 2025
Nick Fiorentino
To all the recreational runners, or hobby joggers (and I use this term in a non-derogatory manner), who run not...
flames

Incendiary

February 25, 2025
Nick Fiorentino
6 feet off the ground but 60 feet beneath the crown
Philosophy
Vernal Falls

Vernal Falls

January 28, 2025
Nick Fiorentino
Have you ever noticed how a waterfall falls? Spirits of glacial spittle traverse towards the earth at different rates.
Health
Chopped tomatoes.

Tomato

October 8, 2024
Nick Fiorentino
[Synapse Storytelling Contest second place winner for poetry.] Tomato /tə’mɔ:dö/ On Sundays like these, I’m paralyzed by curiosity playing psychic...
Stylized mandala

Holy Resurrection

May 14, 2024
Nick Fiorentino
persevere years on end, to Failure’s amusement Impious
Philosophy
Surreal waves

Cordelia

March 12, 2024
Nick Fiorentino
a public chortle, woven and gleeful
Arts & Culture
Iceberg

Crevasse

February 27, 2024
Nick Fiorentino
One day there’ll be a reactor meltdown. The seas will swelter in a vicious response
Nature
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