Month: April 2026
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mirror
they went all that wayto look backnot forwardnot at the moon waiting to be claimedbut backat something already holding themand there it wasnot spinning for applausenot posing for historyjust beingblue that refuses languagewhite that does not ask permissiona thin green whisperand thereif you look long enoughthe faint flickerof uscities breathingsoft electric pulsesproofnot erasedjust reducedno borders…
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The Island We Keep Returning To
I’ve always had a soft spot for people who get stranded in inconvenient places. Not in real life, obviously. In real life I prefer water filtered, food refrigerated, and problems solvable with a phone call. I have, on at least one recent occasion, canceled a perfectly good flight because there was a faint and statistically…
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The Tree That Refused to Behave Like a Tree
There is a particular kind of tree that refuses to behave like a tree. I want to be clear about this, because I think we all carry around a fairly reasonable mental image of what a tree is supposed to do. It is supposed to have a trunk. It is supposed to go up. It…
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wingbeat wingbeat
i wake before the lightbecause the light is lateand i have things to sayall night the branch held methin as a thoughtbut morningmorning splitsgreen everywheregreen pushing through woodthrough soilthrough memoryi shake myself loosefeathers cracklethe sky opensand i cannot hold iti singtrill-trill-trillsee-see-seebright-bright-brighti throw my throat into the airhere i amhere i amhere i amthe worms wrigglethe…
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Fluency, Interrupted
In September 1991, at the Ryder Cup on Kiawah Island, Bernhard Langer stood over a putt he had made thousands of times before and could not trust himself to make now. It was the sort of distance that professional golfers do not ordinarily regard as a problem. They have made putts like this so often…
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