Showing posts with label tears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tears. Show all posts
Monday, April 20, 2026

OUT OF THE SHADOWS

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by Jiang Pu I want to bring you a heady symphony of roses,  lavender and golden poppies as April unfolds into giant butterfly wings in my ya...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

HOW MUCH CAN WE TAKE?

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by Lynne Kemen after viewing “Continuous Form” by Nishimura Yuko (Japan) 2020—washi paper The paper is impossibly twisted, pleated like ski...
Friday, January 23, 2026

GRACE IN MINNEAPOLIS IN THE AGE OF ICE

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by Barbara Draper It’s afternoon as I sit looking out the library window—  across the street a testy wind snaps a line-up of flags—    the f...
Monday, October 13, 2025

PLEASE, AMERICA, DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON ME

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by Cecil Morris AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News . I remember breaking up with my first real girlfriend,  the one wh...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

WHY I SHOW UP ON WEDNESDAY AT 4:30 PM ON THE CURB ACROSS FROM 188 HARVEST LANE IN MY HOMETOWN

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by Tricia Knoll Google Maps photo of 188 Harvest Lane, Williston. It houses the "Law Enforcement Support Center," ie the ICE natio...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

WE LOVE GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE

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by Cecil Morris Supreme Court seems ready to uphold ban on gender-affirming care for minors. — NPR , December 4, 2024 Here’s gender-affirmin...
Wednesday, May 08, 2024

BURNING CAR

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by Kip Knott “We are not an authoritarian nation where we  silence people or squash dissent. But…”            — President Biden addressing ...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

DECLAIM

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by Mark Svendsen for the children PBS , March 8, 2024 Standing at the crossroads, black with traffic Waiting for the little green man to tel...