Tag: #skipjack
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Chris Dahl
Earth Day The starlings live one neighborhood removed from mine. So dark, they remind me of moonless nights when it’s just the universe and stars— How far away they are, those stars. They don’t even know we’re here. Does this love ever stop—this love for dirt and wind— flowers from a hundred different countries live…
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Kai Cooley
Manchester Island On the mainland, Ricky sat on a metal milk crate in a bird blind he’d made of driftwood and jimson weed stems. Leafy branches overhead caged the blue of the sky. At his ear, a mosquito crooned of bloodlines. He raised his grandpa’s antique binoculars towards the arrowhead-shaped wedge of land in the…
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Ope!
Ope here, Excuse me. Pardon. You got a second? You know what I’ve been thinkin’ a lot about lately? Lately, I’ve been thinkin’ a lot about internal dialogue. I’ve been asking myself, Hey, Ope, what in the heck is going on inside people’s heads? Maybe I’m crazy, but all day long I look around and…
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Ontological Proof of Common Decency
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” -Nobody, ever Isn’t it funny how the right combination of words, overheard and out of context, have the power to make us feel outright outrage for a total stranger? It isn’t ha-ha funny, but there’s a joke in there somewhere—a commentary on…
