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![[Poetry] Always Home by Leisel Brex](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/13c0d1674d9147a29aadfeaa859a9a49.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/13c0d1674d9147a29aadfeaa859a9a49.webp)
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[Poetry] Always Home by Leisel Brex
Tiny spiny porcelain clenches, pinching of salty epiphany, pen-point peepers- peering, peeking for predators while questing...
3 days ago1 min read
![[Poetry] Beachcombing by Justine Defever](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_1f0728238e3d469fb01fcc44a1230790~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_1f0728238e3d469fb01fcc44a1230790~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Beachcombing by Justine Defever
Poseidon coaxes us like stray cats, tossing sea glass like kibble. My oldest friend and I scour the Monterey shoreline. Sand mites nip...
Jun 261 min read
![[Poetry] Spring having sprung bees busy buzzing citrus and berries by Gerard Sarnat](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_8b6631d227014f1cbb267a461396c351~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_8b6631d227014f1cbb267a461396c351~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Spring having sprung bees busy buzzing citrus and berries by Gerard Sarnat
Poet, aphorist or sometimes meanderist; Gerard Sarnat is widely published internationally in print and online. He has been nominated for...
Jun 242 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by V. Bray](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_3132c45f408b4a039cf6441a4543185b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_3132c45f408b4a039cf6441a4543185b~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by V. Bray
The Moment When My Brain Realizes We Are Part of Something Bigger I bend to pick up half a translucent plastic milk bottle buried in the...
Jun 191 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Alyssa Ahnell](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_f58f0a5e759142048626faf03b8ea338~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_f58f0a5e759142048626faf03b8ea338~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Alyssa Ahnell
Midnight Surf Pantoum It is like you’ve died, my salty cherub, and I am left beheld by a gone pair of blue eyes. I’ll put on moaning,...
Jun 172 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Sheila Thadani](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_bed48ed7b19f4b99bf176c0c347922d4~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_bed48ed7b19f4b99bf176c0c347922d4~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Sheila Thadani
Stars Beckon The stars shine on starry nights On places far away from day's light What mysteries can they unfold That we have not been...
Jun 122 min read
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[Poetry] Waves by Law Rouge
Waves roll in Consuming Shore Crashing Not one like another Rolling in One after the other High or lower Never ceasing to roll...
Jun 101 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Breanna Ho](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_3721cf0cfc6047df9fa1af12cc485713~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_3721cf0cfc6047df9fa1af12cc485713~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Breanna Ho
INTO HER MOUTH How swift death were but a breath into the next, her undulating embrace awash over me, oblivious to the Siren’s call...
Jun 51 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Mike Sluchinski](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_4781de9b4eab4a54a7dc55a0dac87c47~mv2_d_7360_4912_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_4781de9b4eab4a54a7dc55a0dac87c47~mv2_d_7360_4912_s_4_2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Mike Sluchinski
i prayed for the haole in me (or haole prayers) climbing diamond head half a day lookout past barb wire pele’s canoes beached in the...
Jun 32 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Amy Barone](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_acd1a4941764432a81eeb1200b33f38a~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_acd1a4941764432a81eeb1200b33f38a~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Amy Barone
Arc of a Diver John Muir favored the American Dipper, birds he found joyful whose high trills echoed above the rush of the Sierra’s...
May 292 min read
![[Poetry] The Wanderer by Ritika Devender](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4da4cece17c34646beffe0ba0bfbd5de.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/4da4cece17c34646beffe0ba0bfbd5de.webp)
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[Poetry] The Wanderer by Ritika Devender
The meadow pretended to be endless, Urging my soul to explore the Edenic beauty. The lush was covered with a misty essence, Garnishing...
May 271 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Sue Salt](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1af571818577f875a46dc7df2778ebf7.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/1af571818577f875a46dc7df2778ebf7.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Sue Salt
Obsession Like great tectonic plates our lives crack together Mountains of upheaval heat and friction and the world shudders ...
May 221 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by DH Jenkins](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6cc8c1b605e648f9a1c6ad64a64c8ee0.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/6cc8c1b605e648f9a1c6ad64a64c8ee0.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by DH Jenkins
Salmon Jumping Salmon are jumping thru waves like sun through clouds, in rainbows, in synchronous swimming gliding through circus...
May 212 min read
![[Poetry] There's Smoke by Jared Pearce](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae7c9d5b9c03401c985bd6d1f9474173.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/ae7c9d5b9c03401c985bd6d1f9474173.webp)
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[Poetry] There's Smoke by Jared Pearce
There’s smoke He pointed out the fire we had just used to cook was not a real fire because it was not attached to wood; rather, this...
May 201 min read
![[Poetry] Hello, Storm! by Erin Johnson](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4b644ec4a8d2d949a67be42948908bfc.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/4b644ec4a8d2d949a67be42948908bfc.webp)
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[Poetry] Hello, Storm! by Erin Johnson
Hi Ocean! Yells my two-year-old godson. Hi Ocean! Hi Rain! His mother and I have taken him to the cliffs to see the waters of the day...
May 152 min read
![[Poetry] This Little Place of Rest by Yashika Vahi](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d9d1200a9db0d059bddfcd7b25ccb929.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/d9d1200a9db0d059bddfcd7b25ccb929.webp)
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[Poetry] This Little Place of Rest by Yashika Vahi
There is a hollowness within me that I hope to reach It exists too much in the night And the light makes it fade like a memory into my...
May 141 min read
![[Poetry] Fireflies by Philip Lisi](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2a83c791c67749d1bc3b3ed1f1191e63.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/2a83c791c67749d1bc3b3ed1f1191e63.webp)
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[Poetry] Fireflies by Philip Lisi
I Summers ago, you ran wild in the yard– Oh, how you made me laugh, sister! Giddy as a sprite, chasing after fireflies with an oversized...
May 131 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Pamela Hobart Carter](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_6b1489b85f324d1d9c1630aff8959bd5~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_6b1489b85f324d1d9c1630aff8959bd5~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Pamela Hobart Carter
SISTERS after Galway Kinnell They walk next to next, sister and sister, and tell the tale of all they know, while the tide...
May 82 min read
![[Poetry] Where You’ll Find Me by Peggy Heitmann](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a394701f8d754f4685e5578bda5e0df9.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/a394701f8d754f4685e5578bda5e0df9.webp)
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[Poetry] Where You’ll Find Me by Peggy Heitmann
If you are looking for me, you will find me near the ocean under a purple velvet sky sprinkled in a star shower of dreamy notions....
May 61 min read
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[Poetry] After the Storm by Joanne Durham
the newness of each of us out from shelter -- a woman with walking stick stoops for sea glass thinner smoother algae strung...
May 11 min read
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