Thursday, August 31, 2017

TINY CHAIRS IN BETHLEHEM, AUGUST 2017

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by Bonnie Naradzay On the outskirts of Bethlehem Israeli military jeeps late at night arrive at a school, newly built, as locals ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

BOTH SIDES

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by Judith Terzi Lies and lies are everywhere, and racist slogans fill the air and hatred oozing everywhere. We didn't know t...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

FROM THE LOWER DEPTHS

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by Lenore Weiss Left: Tom and his dog Winter take a moment as they hang out at his friend's camp site near 5th and Market streets o...
Monday, August 28, 2017

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE IN CHARGE DURING A FLOOD

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by Diane Elayne Dees Eat birthday cake in the Arizona desert. If, however, you’re not invited to the party like the other guy was, d...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MOSQUE

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by Devon Balwit Kristin Collins with the letter her son Abraham Davis sent to the Masjid Al Salam Mosque (Fort Smith, Arkansas) in apol...
Friday, August 25, 2017

HEATHER

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by Marsha Owens Art from Naomi Kane. Image source: TheNib Words travel dark back roads of my brain, seep into aching fingers that ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE HORSES

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by Tricia Knoll Horse Statue by jellobuster at DeviantArt One million dead in the Civil War, if you count the mules. Which I do. ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

GRAB-ORIENTED FLEXION

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by Jennifer Clark Photo by Nathan Atkinson on Unsplash I do as Greg says, for five minutes, three times a day. I feel silly, sifti...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

POSTCARD FROM HOPEWELL CEMETERY

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by Kathleen McClung A Michigan woman accused of stealing flowers from local cemeteries that authorities say she used to decorate he...
Monday, August 21, 2017

ECLIPSE

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by William Marr from The New York Times , August 14, 1932 Young at heart the old sun once in a while likes to put on his mischie...

THE BIG EYE

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by David Radavich What is the sound of an eclipse or a moon’s shadow? That is the life we want. Not without dissonance but ch...

ONE FINAL LOOK

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by J. D. Mackenzie Image source: Blue Sky Vineyards via Belleville (IL) News-Democrat It burns within us, a need to look skyward t...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

T***P'S MAGNIFICAT

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by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Saint Putin by aegragru at DeviantArt in praise of Putin the Red Dragon My heart does magnify your wind ...

SOLIDARITY’S QUESTION

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by Sister Lou Ella Hickman solidarity’s question: who will embrace such present sorrow                     I am only one, but still ...