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Name Change
For nearly twenty years I’ve been a member / of the “Men’s Spiritual Nurture Group”
Howard Nelson
Poetry
Tuning Up
A staccato jackhammer, / rattle of a loose windowpane, / a frisking wail of wind.
Richard Schiffman
Poetry
Wednesday Evenings
A gaggle of barefoot pilgrims / hungry to hush minds’ chatter / tiptoe upstairs, settle
Karen Luke Jackson
Poetry
Morning Prayer
While river whispers / at his window, carrying night slowly / downstream, he rises, like a pre-dawn lark
Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry
Hoeing an Apple Tree
To hoe, not only to protect fruit / but this toddler apple tree’s future
Cynthia Gallaher
Glaciers (Removed)
“Glaciers” by John Kucera has been removed from the August 2023 online edition due to plagiarism. The actual author of…
Poetry
Wild Greens
Observation in pursuit of / something is one / way to describe / what foragers / do...
Averie A. Hue
Poetry
A Litany for Ancestor Wisdom
In a world divorced / from knowledge that cannot be / parsed or proved
Karen Luke Jackson
Poetry
Vermont Solstice
Light brighter than the sun / pierced the midsummer night. / Thunder on the mountain.
James Hannon
Poetry
This in Remembrance
Something was always on the stove. We talked / until a lid began to dance, and again / when she…
Donald Mace Williams
Poetry
From the checkout line in the supermarket
I notice the sun duck behind clouds and blue / sky turns gray. I feel the last of winter
Molly O’Dell
Poetry
Pilgrimage
drawn by liquid chemistry / redolence of home / I made my way to you
Tricia Gates Brown
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