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Scots pine and sea spray.

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by Cliff Beck.

We’ve travelled many years to discover that we’re here
where the air carries a bouquet of Scots pine and sea spray
prompting memories of endless days
on mountains, moorland and seashore;
the immensity and intensity of it all
making us feel so ephemeral, so small.

Remember summer days spent under the trees,
spellbound as congeries
of flowers, fungi, mosses, leaves
and gossamer threads
of dew bejeweled spider webs
revealed the intricate intimacy of life.

In the darkest days of winter
countless unique yet anonymous snowflakes
conceal all as they fall,
losing themselves in a blanket
of purity and tranquility
stretching from here to the horizon:
the infinite combined with the infinitesimal;
our bubble of intimacy nestled in invisibility,
nurtured by a web of memories
carried on a bouquet of Scots pine and sea spray

Inuit (from “My Life with Dogs”).

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by Tod Davies. It was a real community, the place I had chosen. I found that out, bit by bit, day by day. Happy helped. He was indeed a happy dog, gregarious to a fault. In those days, more than three decades ago, my little alpine valley was a sparsely populated place. It was a […]

Vagabond Awareness.

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by Benjamin White. The emotional imprints Of the past Impact the frequencies Of the soul Tuning in dreams Until previous lives Are reconnected To shared experiences While seeking The familiarity Of spirits Once-and-always touching, Close and joined To the point Of being The same consciousness, Although split By time and space On the parallels Of […]

Riga Stories.

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by Nick Armbrister.   Riga Pot Luck In combat it was pot luck who lived or died. Especially in a global war without end. Training, will power, skill and luck only went so far. The Grim Reaper struck without warning. There was only so much to be done. Do an extra five minutes of pre-flight […]

A Library Heart.

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by Amelia Arnold.   I’m sitting on the return cart again. Smushed between famous literary pieces, all cherished and treasured, not a single blemish among their pages. And then there’s me. Pages of my heart dogeared and torn, writing in the margins from someone who loved to read me at first, promised to read me […]

Back into Paradise.

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by David Selzer. ‘They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes’. PSALM 63, VERSE 10, KING JAMES BIBLE Walking through Borough Market one Friday night, past bagged litter, cacophonous wine bars, themed eateries, and food waste in gutters, I saw, trotting across Cathedral Street, seemingly following the arrow to the […]

Glass vs Wheel Wheel vs Glass vs.

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by Jim Meirose. Court Jesters!             All Rise! This next slate of statistics portrays all vitals necessary to compute the result if any debate as to whether the invention of glass or the discovery of the wheel bears greater importance. GLASS: vitale statisticcommo-gluggli(((((((oPanama City))))))) ; Letter G; 2.4705%         12.59 Letter L; 5.4893%         27.98 Letter A; 8.4966%         […]

How We Became Mortal.

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by Brian Griffith. In some ancient myths, the original humans lived in a pristine paradise, knowing neither suffering nor death. A Greek legend holds that the world’s first people were all men, who lived forever in brotherly accord, freely submitting to rule by the gods. The problem of disobedience first arose when a man named […]

What You Hate.

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by Gregg Winkler. I started playing Wordle around the same time everyone else did. The world was still in the era of Covid, which had racked up millions of deaths. The American Capitol Building in Washington DC had been attacked by its own citizens. And we were all still reeling from the glass-bridge episode of […]

Demiurge Helpline.

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by Galen T. Pickett.   Your call is important to us. Please remain on the line. Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received. You are caller 2,178,309. We will be with you shortly. The recorded voice cut off and was replaced by an eighty-nine-string orchestra playing selections from The […]