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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 1 week, 1 day ago
O TANGERINE by Christina Hauck Buying one I thought of my mother, dead three months. How she loved the easy peel, the seediness! Long ago on Christmas morning I discovered A […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Lent by Sharon Ackerman The word Lent derives from an Old English word meaning ‘lengthen.’ Or more precisely, it comes from the Middle English word lente which means spr […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 4 weeks ago
We Were Bag People and Lament for my Late Cousin While Feeding the Dog, 2 poems by Marianne Worthington We Were Bag People Life is no knock-off handbag, no purse ordinary as any K-Mart pocketbook. No. Worse. Life is a brown paper bag, plainest […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Canticle for the Hand and Mouth by Karl Sherlock The way one’s mouth shadows the hand because hands spoke the first language. The way the lurid tongue-tip drapes the sill of one’s lip, mob […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Some Stories by Claire Scott Some stories last long past their appointed hour, like light from expired stars. Like leftover houseguests or five day fish. We walk toward […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 3 months ago
Old News by Joseph Kleponis It was late afternoon in fall or spring Because we were not wearing heavy coats. The pale sun was just starting to squinch down. As we left the […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Autumn Landscape by Elizabeth Mercurio How do you bear the middle-aged body, all its longing— …… a body grown round. It doesn’t curve with the same sweetness it did on days […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 4 months ago
Advent by Sharon Ackerman The Christmas story is full of haves and have-nots, those who are empty and those who are full, those who have shelter and those who lack. As with […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months ago
Bloodroot in March by Gary Grossman 1. Regardless of the year, it’s the first flower seen on my daily hikes, pushing through every November’s abandoned duvet of tan and umb […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months, 1 week ago
a cricket's delight by IIma Quereshi one tree- with its small hands and another with its star-laced fingers brush against the sky the sky that looks like a sea drained of […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Cockatiel not you by Sean Lause Cockatiel, not you, a yellow and orange assertion. Bright with her own meanings, clatters round the outside of her cage, without […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
17 Year Cicada by David B. Prather —Magicicada septendecim I never thought I could love you, arguing with leaves under midday sun, your body a prune with polymer wi […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 6 months, 3 weeks ago
In the Nature of Chickens, There is Little Room for Gentleness by Emma Fenton On Thursday, there are three chickens in the backyard pecking at each other, plucked feathers scattered on the ground like a gruesome crime […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Writing the Family Secret by Sharon Ackerman Who doesn’t love mysteries and secrets? I can recall sitting under a shade tree as a child with stacks of Nancy Drew, Alice in Wonderland, Tom’s Mid […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 8 months ago
Five economic terms you should know and The ring of Gyges, 2 poems by Casey Killingsworth Five economic terms you should know Scarcity. The bar where I am drinking–because I have money–has more beer than it could give away but it won […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Richmond, Monday Morning by Debbie Collins The Saint Francis Center is hopping this morning, people lined up all jive and jest the addicts and drunks and misfits file in and out, raw […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 9 months ago
The Open Shed by Mark Belair With its double doors swung wide and its mower rolled out and parked beside bags of spring grass seed, the open cemetery shed makes each […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 9 months, 1 week ago
Primitive Reflexes by Thomas Mampalam In the space of one hour: coma then a blown pupil, extensor posturing. Hemicraniectomy to relieve swelling from a large cerebral infarction. The […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 10 months ago
Southbound by Sharon Ackerman My dad’s family bible and watch finally arrived in the mail to me nearly twenty years after his death. How it happened is a circuitous story, worthy o […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Message by Mary Christine Kane Last night I called you. Moon sharp, I said, like an important message. Look up. The sky has opened its story and shined its shy star. It’s a p […]
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