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Summer 2023: Beyond Physics.

Childhood Backyard.

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by James Croal Jackson.

Oblivious to the approaching hard-
ships of the road, the sleeping leaves
with years of nourishment wake
with you in your mom’s backyard,
under dark sky and pine boughs.
Those autumn days the wind blew,
singing, but remembering the song
has become too loud. Place your palm
against the bark to soften its voice, cease
the rustling. Come inside now. Walk
through your memories like in a dream.

Old Earth, New Testimony.

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by Diana Morley.   Never thought quakes were useful beyond continents pulling up their hems and resettling into new more comfy positions, but turns out they’re not only dead giveaways of the earth’s mettle but also the metal ball at the true center. I imagine the interface between liquid core and the iron-nickel ball four-hundred […]

Recovery.

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by Chris Farago. I count small memories as if they were lights on a string, alternating colors and years and differing quality of breath. At 6 I am alone in a room, somewhere. Again at 17, and also 12, not quite sure of the past or the future, then or ever. Today might be Tuesday, […]

If you’d like to come through now.

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by Bernard Pearson. Like a librarian shooshing the ocean, It seemed so pointless some how That we should wish to see her now, Hair spread out like bracken, face chiselled, in quietude, As if for some ceremonial purpose. And her teeth on a washstand In a Tupperware container the kind You might put fish food […]

Inevitable Attraction is a Cliché.

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by Barry Vitcov. Depending upon one’s point of view, our attraction was inevitable. Allow me to explain: I was at rest doing my best to conserve energy before you bumped into me. I swerved one way, you the other. At that point, it was all relative. We arced like independent rainbows seeking treasure beyond measure. […]