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LEAVE ME AT THE BREAK by Benjamin Faro

December 13, 2024

Altogether we were / uncountable, and another / of us we abandoned / at the shore.

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In Poetry Tags LEAVE ME AT THE BREAK, Benjamin Faro, Poetry, 2024 December

Colors of Sound by Hantian Zhang

December 12, 2024

White emerges when all wavelengths of light reflect off an object with equal intensity, much like how white noise distributes its amplitude across its entire frequency range. Examples abound: running water, the whir of a fan, the hum of a vacuum.

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In Nonfiction Tags nonfiction, creative nonfiction, Hantian Zhang, Colors of Sound, 2024 December, Nonfiction

The Great Food Question by Leah Harris

December 11, 2024

And I realize that layered in pasta and ham, spinach and oats, maybe the food question is really a language of love, a question of intimacy — because what’s closer to a person than the food they eat?

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In Multimedia Tags The Great Food Question, Leah Harris, Multimedia, 2024 December

At the Supernova of Boyhood by Joe Bonomo

December 11, 2024

In his memoir 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, Robyn Hitchcock’s assembled a lovely, evocative, characteristically quirky portal back to that heady time.

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In Nonfiction Tags At the Supernova of Boyhood, Joe Bonomo, Nonfiction, Music, 2024 December

Peach Ode by Matt Poindexter

December 11, 2024

Sweet teenage goths, come back / from evening’s municipal cemeteries / and haunt the living for a minute.

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In Poetry Tags Peach Ode, Matt Poindexter, Poetry, 2024 December

A Hospitable Man by Theodora Ziolkowski

December 11, 2024

The kind of man Cathy imagined would pursue an eleven-year-old should be tall and fit. He ought to wear fitted washed jeans, his button-up sleeves rolled loosely. His fingers should be stacked with rings, and a tattoo should climb the side of his neck, his forearm or bicep. But the man who’d sought out Cathy was short and stocky. His pasty skin had a sheen that made it look extra malleable, like putty.

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In Fiction Tags fiction, Theodora Ziolkowski, A Hospitable Man, 2024 December, Fiction

Come In Go Ahead Say Again by Christopher Citro

December 4, 2024

Skies have moods. We gave these / to them. Named the rivers. Imagine that.

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In Poetry Tags Come In Go Ahead Say Again, Christopher Citro, Poetry, 2024 December

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