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Fall 2023: Animal Dreams.

the blooming meadows.

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by Jakub Paczesniak.
(translated by Charles S. Kraszewski)

the blooming meadows
spread wide
just outside
the door

a stream
of honey-coloured light
fell from the sky

the trees turned
their green faces
in our direction

the valley filled with
figures
of air

and we went along thinking
that we’re going along
alone

 

Those Wild Animals Our Dreams.

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by JW James. moving slowly through the forests maybe you only get a glimpse the fox of nowhere the foxes of nothing your sensual psyche stretches across the landscape you are a deep hidden lake of everything when you drop down when you lift the skies there is no turning back and nightblack-feathered raven blocks […]

Mudd (from “My Life with Dogs”).

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by Tod Davies. When my mother was at the end of her life, as so often happens, the past sometimes was more there to her than the present. This was lucky for me. She had been so cagey about telling me stories of her past. “You’ll write about them. I don’t want you to write […]

Cryptic Dreams.

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by Barry Vitcov. Before waking from a baseball game where the right fielder was an amoeba a limbless organism without arms playing a position requiring the best arms in a championship game doing the most harm. Or was I confused? Maybe it was a player named Joe Amoeba, or Mickey, or Willie, or Duke. What […]

Africa’s Private Animal Worlds.

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by Brian Griffith. During the 1990s, Kenya saw a rise of private nature preserves outside the national parks. Near Amboseli Park, a community of 840 Masai families, who had been displaced when the park began, made their own community wildlife preserve along a 15-mile stretch of the Kimana swamp. They started charging admission as a […]

Talking Ape Man.

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by Tom Ball.   I, Deborah, said to the ape man, “I envy you! You have no cares in the World and live a life of bliss, here in the zoo.” The ape man could talk and said, “But I am not free.” I said, “We are all slaves to our decisions we make, and […]

Catalysts.

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by David D. Horowitz. “Cats aren’t particularly friendly,” a friend of mine recently remarked to me. “Dogs,” she added, “are much more affectionate and trusting, so I love them more than cats.” I have heard many people over the years offer similar comments, and I, though a cat-lover, appreciate their view. Cats are infamously finicky—about […]

Exploring America’s Libraries, Churches, and Casinos.

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by Cal LaFountain. Libraries, churches, and casinos are everywhere, and they offer more than knowledge, faith, and fortune. These institutions fashion the world in disproportionate secrecy. Each invites you to engage its gods and fuels a striving for more. Seeking a new loop of mind, spirit, and wallet, I’m exploring these places across America and […]

How I Broke My Nose.

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by Jim Meirose. My Dog: Hey. Me: What? My Dog: How did you break your nose? Me: Well, how I broke my nose’s not really how it happened’a wa’ afta’, asin; but, might be like this; now how’s ‘bout d’gift ma’ Babci-Nora give me, th’ nice but wrong sized big Replogle. So; at some every one ‘f a’ […]

A Piecemeal Crisis.

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by David Selzer. We are nearly two months into spring, only moments away from summer, and yet, yet, though three swifts have returned from Africa, though a pair of ungainly wood pigeons court in a neighbour’s gutter, though there are hot days perfumed with plants and bee laden, wintry winds from the north harry clouds […]