A Green Carnivore
/Unlike most plants
that draw substance from soil
the earth is merely your anchor
your appetite is for …
By Shih-Fang Wang
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Don’t Mess With The Snail
/Hey, stop right there, you human being,
Don’t you dare call me a worthless snail
Who wanders across the kitchen floor
Messily oozing a slimy …
By K. J. Watson
Read MoreDear Mother Earth
/We have been talking about saving…
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Oh, my dear Mother earth, we find ourselves in quite a bind. Once we had abundant resources, but now, those resources are harder…
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreSign Said: No Colored Allowed
/George Blackwood's empathy for the struggles of Black Americans began in his childhood in Gates, a small community in western Tennessee named for Revolutionary War General …
By Don Gardiner
Read MoreStrange Times
/It all started with village folktales. Of ghosts loitering in the silence of midnight, stalking a wandering stranger or a lone recalcitrant youth returning home…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreRamblin' Round
/Nobody knows what’s …
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Don’t we all? The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. The groundhog surveys my backyard for exactly the same reason. The birds on the deck are glad to have discovered the delicious seeds somebody foolishly …
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLost in Spaces
/Toody and Muldoon probably …
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I’m confident that in this lot
I’ll find my auto’s parking spot
although, perhaps—and …
By Ken Gosse
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 MoreThe True Sovereign King
/All kings have sovereignty over…
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What we think about Kings comes from fairy tales; that they are fictional, kind, and forbearing. However, most historical kings are portrayed as alive, cruel, and uncaring. A king is meant to be a leader, the protector of his …
By Linda Troxell
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