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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Still Life with Bulldozer and Backhoe by Cindy Buchanan
In the empty lot across the street they graze on ground scrape and grind — diesel sculptors of land and sound that rumble words shatter li […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 month ago
The Audience Beneath by Holly Day
The worms are writing a song in my garden, rustling their slick bodies through the leaves in a rising crescendo, inspired by the rain. If one were […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Trick of the Eye: Fresh Roasted by Richard Elliott Martin
If you want a free lunch, All you have to do is smash, bleed, and work for it. Would you like some peanuts for lunch? Free sample, the sign on the […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 2 months ago
Teaching by J.R. Solonche
Teaching, too, is labor. Everyday to be up to the task, everyday the master of a hundred worlds, of casual words, and of causal words, to confront […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 2 months, 1 week ago
A Bragging Humility by Fred Wilbur
“It is true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own pers […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 2 months, 4 weeks ago
First Car Accident by Alisha Goldblatt
Tucked in her shell of gutsy metal, an errant art teacher spun my car into a snow bank. We shook after the collision, the grab handle, Jesus, […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 3 months ago
Jack Gilbert Keeps Lilacs Alive in his Head by Deborah Doolittle
The lilacs hid the remains of a porch it used to screen. The hints of joints and steps leading up and between. Stone remnants of a […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 3 months, 1 week ago
When the Spring Winds are Strong, Wolf Spiders Balloon by Gary Grossman
They’re up on the branch tips, all eight legs en pointe— one hundred and four chitinous arachnids, their tutus matching leafless twigs. Thes […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Maxed Out by Jason Montgomery
This year my credit card company sent me a birthday card. In simple red, white and blue it wished me a happy birthday from Credit One. It is nice […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 4 months ago
Water, Water, Everywhere: Lessons of Water by Fred Wilbur
“If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” —Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 4 months, 1 week ago
The red onion by Deborrah Corr
Deborrah Corr has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest The red onion is a purple globe. I hold it, let my skin adore […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Plop by Mary Walsh
Plop A Rorschach inkblot appears on the cement before me. I veer to avoid the disgusting mess. Weirdly white for a germ filled poop, I fail to […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months ago
Mentor by Jeanne Julian
for Alfred Kern,1924-2009 Search Amazon for his novel, The Width of Waters, and you get No Image […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Little Napalm Girl by Jean Mikhail
On the black and white TV, we watched silently, as an American soldier fell into a field of static like he was falling fast asleep, tumbling down […]
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Fred Wilbur commented on the post, Writing For A Generation by Joel F. Johnson 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Provocative blog and a book sure to be read. Thanks, Joel.
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 months, 4 weeks ago
What Horses Say and Stains, 2 poems by Rita Quillen
What Horses Say What’s to be made of the field of buttercups, a saffron sea at the bend of the road, with the three h […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 6 months, 1 week ago
The Dying Art of Silence? by Fred Wilbur
If ‘silence is golden,’ why do we squander it so foolishly? If you try finding ‘peace and quiet’ in contemporary life, you will be gob-smac […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Trails by Will Hemmer
We walked down this dusty canyon, where the rains have worn gashes in the gray banks like the creases that run from your cheek bones to your jaw […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 6 months, 3 weeks ago
My Sister's Breakfast by Jonathon Chibuike Ukah
Jonathon Chibuike Uka is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest My Sister’s Breakfast The things my sister eats for […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Land Where Horses Grow Tired of Running, Hadeel's Story by Olivia Lee Stogner
Olivia Lee Stogner is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest Where Horses Grow Tired of Running, Hadeel’s Story Today I went to […]
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