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Three Hearts Pumping.

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by Debra Elisa.

 

What is it like to have three hearts pumping?

Octopus with its eight limbs—light a constant

 

If only I could learn patience as the Beaver

who gnaws away at the Cottonwood

her power to change the course of Water

to cause a massive energy outage

no internet

traffic jams for a half-mile

in any direction.

 

Sometimes when we try something new

the soul feels itself not just falling

in love   but loving

as a grand gesture

a giving of Grains

 

the wonder of a Hummingbird

wings’ flutter 40-50 times per second

Giraffe’s Tongue black and blue

stretching 13 times

the length of a human’s

to lick another’s lips.

 

I am so often astonished by the Human Body

how mine wobbles its way

Earth suite responsive

to every thought or prayer

 

and on those most fortunate of Days

when the Heart usurps

 

leads Limbs to braise

bags of groceries

into feast

I cross my chest           inhale

 

this mystic beat

until the next exhale.

The Red You See.

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by Bruce E.R. Thompson. A question that sometimes comes up in a philosophy class is this: how do you know that the red you see is the same red that I see? If the professor doesn’t ask this question, then surely one of the students will. This is the kind of question that gives philosophy […]

The Strange Tale of Drs. Tumblety & Blackburn: Or What’s in a Name?

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by James C. Clar.   I make no claim that the following tale is factually or historically accurate. The only truth I aspire to here is narrative truth; which is, of course, the most important truth of all. My sole aim is speculation in service of a desire to make a good story even better […]

Tension and Release.

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by David D. Horowitz. “All of life is tension and release.” So remarked a customer to me about fifty years ago when I worked in a U District café as an espresso machine operator to help pay my expenses as a University of Washington student. Say “tension and release,” and many people will think: sex. […]

Wildflowers: The Wisdom of Tom Petty.

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by Gregg Winkler. There’s a state park not too far from where I live. It has a 19-mile hiking trail complete with swinging rope bridge, scenic routes, wildlife including deer, turkey, and foxes, a primitive campsite, and several rock formations that make for good climbing. I’ve never been able to complete the whole trail. A […]

Automatic Immortality.

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by Brian Griffith. When monotheists speak of “salvation from death,” it seems to imply that only saved souls can live forever. But that phrase reflects the ancient Zoroastrian and Jewish belief in resurrection of the body, which held that the righteous will be raised on a day of the Lord, leaving others to lie in […]

The Errant Sea Hawk.

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by Matias Travieso-Diaz. After years of squabbles that had led to many animals dying or getting seriously injured, the beasts of the jungle finally listened to the advice of a learned owl: “Instead of fighting each other for the right to rule the forest, you should run a popularity contest and select the strongest and […]

Strider, Part III (from “My Life with Dogs”).

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by Tod Davies. Then Strider died. In the last year of his life, I learned more from him than I had from any other dog. More, in fact, than from any other human. Pain teaches you that, I find. I’ll never know what caused that first terrifying seizure. He had run on an estuary beach […]

As God Gargles Oceans.

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by Harvey Lillywhite. Natural wonder invites us to God. May we ask, for instance, who makes your clothes: Spiders spinning and weaving birds? And how— By brushes of hurricanes and lightning Pins—are you coiffed? How many elephants And whales on the scales does it take to weigh You? Just rosy nebulae, aurora Borealis, the midnight […]

On(0) Writing.

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by Jim Meirose. How the Hell!                 above and lau                             from above and laughing ||||||| no no no no none of that matter just the end result’s what matters after all okay, CLASS, Looks like it’s time for a lesson in some sort o’ logi=c y’ know ah ah know ah ah ah y’know don’tcha know? […]