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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
God by Mel Kenne God must be, I dare now to say, like a cat, with His / Her / Its impertinence and delays in ordering our lives, loves and ways of being […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 7 months, 2 weeks ago
grown girl: she thinks of the dead by Liz Femi it surely is the same wrinkled sky from years ago when i lived in dense forest towns when cold winds chafed Iroko bark like prayers chafe […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Belleville Reformed Church by Josh Humphrey And if you were that old collection of smudged walls and dusty glass, you would be embarrassed to be caught by the mo […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 8 months ago
Beech Tattoos by Ned Kraft Father Fagus Grandifolia, silver grey with muscled shoulders fingers traced across the soil like a hawk’s nest suturing the slope. Beech t […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Air is Wind is Song by Fred Wilbur As a child, when did you first become aware of air? It was probably as its manifestation in the mysterious force of wind. Indeed, we all have […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 9 months ago
Desire by Molly McKaughan I sit at the bar at Café Un, Deux, Trois on West 43rd and cross my legs and swivel toward the room glass of wine in hand nylons […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Reaching Out by Fred Wilbur Among rural Piedmont foothills, coves of the gentle Blue Ridge Mountains, is where I live. There is no incorporated town in the county; the […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 10 months ago
Dismantling Bethlehem by Sam Barbee After-Xmas industry. In neighborhoods, crisp cedars and spruce pines hyphenate curbs. A pasture fronts the orphanage, tempers grid of brick […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 10 months, 1 week ago
Rembrandt Etchings by Frederick Pollack From however far away, detail. The lovers, almost fully clothed, amid bushes, her round blonde face delighted, hopeful. The r […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Monosyllabic by J. R. Solonche The best ones are the small ones, those you need to hold in your hand two or three at a time, those you need to feel for size, and shape, and […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Punding by Eric Forsbergh It’s working all of us, and all the time. Not just as obvious obsessions with diagnostic names, the car-horn ones you notice corralling s […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Handout by Michael T. Young A day of forgetting has its price, but a price that can’t be reckoned, because the receipt itself was shoved into a pocket, soaked in the l […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 11 months ago
Atheist and Not Now, Maybe Not Ever, 2 poems by Claire Rubin Scott Atheist At seven I stopped believing in Santa after Mary Lou whispered to me betrayed by adults lured into an unreal world I stopped believing […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 11 months, 2 weeks ago
and yet the moon by Nimisha Mondal your father is dying on the other side of the world and yet, the moon shines into our bedroom my mother has broken her ankle and can’t walk […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Writing History's Happenstance by Fred Wilbur During my older sister’s annual visit last fall, three shoe boxes came into the house with her luggage. After the usual greetings and settling i […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year ago
The Owl by Deborrah Corr From the branch above, half concealed in new oak leaves, silent, the barred owl watches with giant eyes, round as the pool at my feet. Its […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year ago
Parma, Idaho by Craig Brandis Mounds of sugar beets under halogen, marooned in pressure […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
Evolution of a History by Fred Wilbur Unlike my previous writing efforts, I am presently engaged in compiling a history of the local garden club (of all things!) The subject is not one […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
Some Trepidation by Fred Wilbur I am scheduled for a tri-annual colonoscopy soon and like most people, I buy into the statistics of cancer prevention, though it is not an event […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 2 months ago
Arson by Matt Dhillon Matt Dhillon is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2022 Poetry Contest Arson Blistering heat, mother of me. A little gasoline makes the […]
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