Finding Everything by Thomas R. Moore Did you find everything you were looking for? Julie, the magenta-haired checkout girl, asks, and no, I think, I didn’t find inner peace, or answers to several questions I’ve been mulling, like are we headed for nuclear war and does the rest of the world think America has gone […]

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 […]

Living in the Body by Joyce Sutphen Body is something you need in order to stay on this planet and you only get one. And no matter which one you get, it will not be satisfactory. It will not be beautiful enough, it will not be fast enough, it will not keep on for days […]

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 […]