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Origin Stories – Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
Read more: Origin Stories – Jennifer Schomburg KankeSalvia, Reblooming by Jennifer Schomburg Kanke Speak to me of love and I will speak to you of salvia bought on sale, twenty-cents, an end of the season find. The man said bloomless shafts weren’t worth the dirt. Forget to water, leave bare on chilly nights. Speak to me of love and I will tell…
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Origin Stories – Oisín Breen
Read more: Origin Stories – Oisín BreenOrigin Stories – the Kingfisher The poem, the Kingfisher, is an off-cut, of a kind, reconfigured to stand apart, from my current major work-in-progress. Its genesis lies in slowly building out the world in which the greater work’s narrator struggles between sensuality and an absurdly fanatical religious devotion, and in each object on the island…
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Origin Stories – James Penha
Read more: Origin Stories – James PenhaCows by James Penha The cows in the field lumber from patch to patch of grass and weeds; mouths pull and chew and swallow and cuddle with an eagerness their big brown bodies belie. Contented—as those dairy bovines who produced Carnation Condensed Milk had been advertised for decades—cows need not run. They amble. They lumber.…
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Origin Stories – Laurie Rosen
Read more: Origin Stories – Laurie RosenSlow Flow Lava by Laurie Rosen When he asked, I didn’t say yes right away, fearing myself embedded like a xenolith, bits and pieces torn off, trapped in his magma, thwarted from traveling my own journey. And for years it seemed so. Traces of me wiped away, my core weakened — spun off-course, momentarily interrupted…
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