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For Martha, the Last of Her Kind
You see me now, cold and still behind glass

Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read


A tanaga for my six-year-old self
Thank you Lord for the audacity

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Dissociation in Six Parts
I’m standing in my elementary school bathroom

Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read


Ladies, Sharpen Your Fingernails
Hello and thank you for your purchase of DazzleBot: Prestige Edition, the only full- service home salon the size of a briefcase!

Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read


Ripples in the Mirror
Every morning asks me / Whether or not to kill the ant

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Dear Nashville,
in my mind I am still / driving up and down murfreesboro rd

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Made Whole
I’m waiting in a large white room

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Brown-Eyed Susans
Ahead and years / Before us

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


lovers/strangers
I was not angry that you lied

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Monstrosity
abominable

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Distant Echoes
There is a lone blue heron.

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Sistine
wonder whether they felt / green light

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


I was a Microbiologist
Back then we autoclaved all the Petri plates

Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20232 min read


Circle of Life
Two springs ago, a pair of robins tried to nest in a corner of my children's wooden playset.

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


The Grave Digger of York
Long ago in the ancient city of York Elias Bilby was sexton of St Martin Micklegate.

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Sep 25, 20232 min read


Scar Tissue
the stillness of / that moment

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


A Long Time, A Slow Trust
One capsule of silver jubilee and I’m a twanging pony in the Texas heat.

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Sep 25, 20232 min read


Swamp Thing Just Wants to Teach a Man to Fish
If I've learned a single thing from the old trees it's to avoid power, yours or anyone else's.

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Art History
“Which is yours?”

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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Burial Rites
In my dream you became / Every grief I don't yet know how to name.

Hearth & Coffin Staff
Sep 25, 20231 min read
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