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Encounterings
Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths...
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antiquity
if & when I am no longer mortal
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Bird Banding
On the phone she’ll tell me stories about shorebirds which breed in warmer marshland winters and still cross the continent...
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Assiduously
This morning, strolling soddenly down Harmon street, the rain became a sudden shield; with sudden clarity I felt calamity dismissed...
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apricots & shallots
I think often of the apricots & shallots that I diced in your kitchen last year with a knife you...
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as we made to leave the bagelry
Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category. we moved through the sentence of the crowd, its fork-plate...
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To Be Laid Out
Nina Djukic’s story won first prize in the Synapse storytelling contest nonfiction category. There are things we cannot know until...