Urn by Dorianne Laux

URN By Dorianne Laux I feel her swaying under the earth, deep in a basket of tree roots, their frayed silk keeping her calm, a carpet of grass singing Nearer my god to thee, oak branches groaning in wind coming up from the sea. We take on trust the dead are buried and gone, the […]

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Becoming by Jim Harrison

Becoming by Jim Harrison Nowhere is it the same place as yesterday. None of us is the same person as yesterday. We finally die from the exhaustion of becoming. This downward cellular jubilance is shared by the wind, bugs, birds, bears and rivers, and perhaps the black holes in galactic space where our souls will […]

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