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Deer in snow
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Three Poems by D. R. James

Rite of Passage In Bali, it’s the filing of the canines to limit boys’ wild adolescence. Among Cameroon’s Baka Pygmies...
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First rains
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The Dark Cloud by Swetha Amit

Not a speck of cloud. No sign of rain. Second year in a row. Kishan looked up at the blazing...
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Data
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Lab Notes by Deb Stark

Date: 2031/08/23 Project: 4957dbfj (Group #1)   Introduction: The focus group consists of six millennials; three males, two females, and...
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Graveyard black and white
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Annie by Steve Passey

Backhoe Bob sat in the gas-station diner with the Sheriff, who also happened to be named Bob. Locals have been...
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Infinite Possibilities
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Infinite Possibilities by Neil Tully

You were born with pale blue eyes. You were born with white skin, a palm-tree-shaped birthmark behind your left knee...
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old car that could have belonged to Robert Lee
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SERIAL MEMOIR Part 4: Rambles with Robert Lee by BJ Omanson

With the coming of spring, Omanson was finally in the mood for a little society and joined an encampment of...
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Black-eyed Susans versus thistles by Elise Koning
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Black-Eyed Susans Versus Thistles by Elise Koning

The July afternoon suspends thick, golden haze drifting from the wildfires out west. I heft a 50-pound bag of cattle...
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The Last Cowboy by David Brennan

His hands, held close to his chest, are formed into fists, in which he clutches lumps of grass, as if...
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Chicken Coop
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Three Poems by Laura Grace Weldon

Walking In The Dark Specialist appointments don’t wait for chickens to wake, so I walk to the coop before dawn...
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Fat Robins
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This Work is Done by Jonathan Humble

This is an old feeling, standing by this evening’s field, these dark rags hanging, strung on wire, beaks silent and...
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Gorse bush
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Green Thorns and Yellow Flowers by Ross Walsh

The furze has taken over, according to my mother, and soon will smother the trees in their infancy. This rocky...
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Tell it to Trees
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Tell it to Trees by Dr. Charles A. Stone

Tell It to Trees Rivers cannot hear trees as they (the rivers) flow through a forest of never-minds with untied...
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Sometimes Being Sold Out Is Worth the Price by D Bedell

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