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Other People’s Bathrobes
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Poetry
DEADMAN
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Poetry
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Photography
Test Screen
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Poetry
One Night
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Art
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Dog Pees on Moonlit Snow
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OMAHA
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Adulting
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Touch (a Ghost addresses her Medium)
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Art
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Poetry
The Dark
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E. E. Dickinson
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Laying That Christmas Wreath
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December 26, 2024
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Autumn
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Art
Fox Mask
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Passing the Buk
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Music
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Music
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Art
ROUGH WATER COLOR: A Gallery of 19 Watercolor Paintings by Robert...
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Zayda in Memory Care
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Softer Truths in City Parks
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The Architect of Ash
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Exile (To the Homeland)
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Poetry
An Idyllic Sickness
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The Long Letter That I Wrote You
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Mad auntie Pauline was right
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the yesterdays before tomorrow
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Poetry
Unspoken
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Art
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Cartoon
The DOGZ of War
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Poetry
head nod
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Poetry
Finish to Start
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Poetry
Lo-Fi
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Poetry
Why America’s Democracy Is Going Bankrupt
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Poetry
..here..
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March 10, 2023
Art
..done some asemic stuff..
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July 9, 2020
Poetry
googling for hope
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Poetry
Removal
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Poetry
Strand #1: Abstractions
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Poetry
You can fly
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Poetry
Selfie with a Dying Cat
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December 19, 2019
Poetry
The Last Goodbye
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Poetry
In a Wooden Town
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Poetry
ancient roadblocks
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Art
The Politician’s Con
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Art
die(d) hard
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Poetry
On Faking My Death
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Poetry
Because time is an artist
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Showcase
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Poetry
The brine
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Photography
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Poetry
slave songs—2020
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Poetry
Everyone Wears Black
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Photography
Peer
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Creative Non-Fiction
Jesus Visits the Central Bus Station
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Poetry
Look Up
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Poetry
September’s End
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Poetry
A Dream of the Basement
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Poetry
Remembering Sand
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Poetry
A dram for you, a dram for me
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Poetry
rather not
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Poetry
An Old Crow Can Fly Like A Child
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Poetry
Terns
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September 10, 2020
Video
IN A CAMPER
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July 2, 2018
Photography
Lost In Transportation
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January 17, 2019
Poetry
The state of things
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May 18, 2019
Photography
light shadows….
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March 13, 2023
Poetry
Jack’s Breakfast – Pardons for Myself Multiply
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Poetry
OFF SEASON AT THE SHORE
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November 26, 2021
Blog
Jordan Trethewey & Friends Read from “Spirits for Sale” at The...
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October 28, 2019
Art
NO ZO MI .. の ぞ み
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May 31, 2020
Photography
Counterpoint_04
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May 19, 2018
Poetry
when did you see it coming
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November 12, 2022
Art
My Last Thought Is Snow
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April 3, 2018
Poetry
The Spirit of Christmas
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December 27, 2021
Poetry
I’m going to go look for a job tomorrow
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February 12, 2022
Poetry
I’m Not Saying They Are Liars
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October 17, 2018
Poetry
Parkinson’s
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October 12, 2022
Poetry
Coffee & Podcasts
Obed Ladiny
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April 26, 2023
Showcase
Covid Times
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May 18, 2020
Poetry
Fitgirl Repack
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January 9, 2024
Poetry
Vision in the High Desert
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August 14, 2024
Poetry
Halloween 2022
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November 2, 2022
Art
Energies
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Poetry
Hope
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May 5, 2025
Poetry
Ethnic Cleanser
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December 20, 2020
Poetry
The Last Time in the Hospital
Mary McCarthy
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July 12, 2018
Art
.view.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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March 19, 2024
Art
Asian Hybridity
Chunbum Park
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April 13, 2021
Poetry
If I Could Paint
Michael Rollain
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July 22, 2018
Poetry
Carpe Diem
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March 8, 2021
Poetry
Here I am reading your sucky poetry again
Eliot Jacobson
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March 11, 2026
Poetry
Big, Long, Red Hairs
Lance Jencks
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May 26, 2023
Non-fiction
The Hurt Vote
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June 6, 2025
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