The Lesson from a Heatwave
/When we're young, we dismiss…
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In high school, the four of us were indestructible.
We could build forts in freezing weather.
In the pouring rain, we’d fish for …
By Debby Hackbarth
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Such Is Life
/My people hardly traveled. Those who did were few. And everyone knew them. Because they were usually the multilinguals in the village who brought news, songs and tales of other lands to our…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreThe Scent of Herbs
/Returning home on foot after work
through a shortcut behind houses
poorly planned
bumped into a lady…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreNever a Blank Slate
/Children are created with…
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Children are not blank slates.
Their chromosomes are half from each mate.
When they form in their mothers…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreBorn to Wander
/Although I have visited large…
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Once a year, we visited the business district in the big city.
We saw expensive goods not the dirty and gritty.
Our parents sheltered us from the intense…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreCreated to Survive and Thrive
/In the 1950s, preemie babies …
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She was a preemie but created to survive,
She was as tiny as a mustard seed but ready …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreSunday Night Drama
/I turned to find mother crying. I did not understand why. But I always kept the incident in my heart, together with the storyline of the movie we were watching that…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreDoorway of Doom
/Exploring your environment…
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On the way to school, we walked past “the home of decay.”
Wanda wanted to enter through the burned-out hatch.
Sam sought to go in using the back …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreBlack And White Television
/…and every now and then a neck craned to look behind the little screen to see where the images filing past our eyes went. The images were so real and emitted joy into our hearts that it was hard to imagine who got all those witty people and wonderful places crammed into the box in front of…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreShe Saved Me
/Sometimes trauma can take a terrific turn.
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…myself and covered the area in aloe.
It hurt so badly, I felt nauseous and hollow.
The pain spikes tended to ebb…
By Debby Hackbarth
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