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What I Left Behind.

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by Lana Hechtman Ayers.

What I left behind was the night sea,
sand cool as glass on my bare feet,
the sweet smell of cedar trees ashore,
a short stroll to the place I called home,
the last room where you still loved me.

 

Strangers in strange lands.

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by Cliff Beck. Feeling the pain of injustice and loss tears run hot in the tracks etched into your face as you trudge through a desolate space hunched against a world that doesn’t care and ignores the despair which cuts to the bone trapping you in congealed emotion; disconnected, bereft and alone. You feel their […]

The Airplane.

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by Virginia Bell. sits on the dash in the dust like a fallen angel like a mother I keep it there thin slip of balsa, the ballast of two paper wings faded, folded just so the tail as if wicked from a butterfly you made it for a boy who was not of your body […]

Blessings.

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by David Bolton. weeding can be good for the soul. clean sheets put the body to sleep. a hug with love cleanses the mind. kindness is a building block to wisdom. art makes for an interesting life. humility leads to clarity. poetry can touch the soul. music takes one to heaven. grandchildren keep one young. […]

what to do if you are in distress.

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by Chris Farago. lie flat. taste the earth, or tequila, or something with a connection to the future.  the world is a magic eye puzzle and you have no focus.  focus. all of your eyes are magical, so you can see anything.  look at your old smoky mezcal self and carry on.  pick up a […]

The Last Night There.

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by Richard LeDue. Beer kept cold in the kitchen sink with ice because the fridge was too important to leave behind, my wife and I slept on an air mattress in the living room, while the rest of the house was empty as a waiting grave, and the last crumbs we swept up meant more […]

How to Lose.

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by Joanie Terrizzi. You can argue (wrestle) (wail) (fight) (rail) against reality. And continue to flail in waters made for drowning. Or you can fill your lungs with breath find your floating back and stare breathless at the starry sky no matter how the waters churn. Reality wins every time. You can soften your heart […]

Wildfire!

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by Diana Morley.   Fiery ash squalls around my car, whuffling grass, sizzling waxed paper cups on the road. Yellow-flamed paper curls to black clumps, rises up over the hood. I’m stuck in a long line on Highway 99, windows closed tight against sooty whirlwinds. But as leaves and ashes whip about, smoke slips in. […]

Memory of a Hero.

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by Tom Ball. It was the year 2099 and I was suffering from a case of amnesia. I couldn’t remember anything that happened in my 30’s, I blamed it on a fall that I seem to have had. But then one day when I was 44, in 2099, I found myself in love with a […]

Vita (from “My Life with Dogs”).

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by Tod Davies. My brother Bill was a college hippie at Chico State. He lived in Whiskey Flats, five miles out of Paradise. Years later, that same town was the one that famously burned to the ground, fast and furiously, a sign of climate change here and to come. By then the years had changed […]