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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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Omnipresence
… buildings, collecting like water, concentrating as the sun dies. Dozens of them, chained fast under the pretense of … like this.”   4.  “I live right here,” Nathan says and points up two floors. “The light and sound come in my … Hook’s 1991 crime tally: twenty-one murders, ten rapes, 526 robberies, and 364 assaults. Michael H. points to a tree …
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In the Shadow of Olympus
… the proxy conflicts of the Cold War, started here, when the communists came out of the mountain and attacked the police … This is living mystically.” In the ancient agora, Galena points out a pomegranate tree just across from the shrine of … the pictures. The dispatches are then published on our website, and two are selected for inclusion in each issue of …
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Postcards
… said she would buy the flowers herself (the Dalloway meme come nearly full circle), walking out with a mask and gloves … news from a list compiled in a weekly review: “A woman who died alone in a nursing home recorded over 40 messages on an … Yo-Yo Ma’s videos on Twitter, playing what he calls #SongsOfComfort. But also a more ordinary happiness. A delicious, …
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Not Even My Own
… which grows from Nova Scotia to Sitka. How might it have come to this small valley? First a bulb, then a garden, then … with my daughter, who has made a piece of the poem her own—“Come away, O human child! / To the waters and the …
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Fibers of Being
… and intricately patterned abaca cloth on a museum website. Abaca fibers come from Musa textilis , a plant primarily cultivated in … a ship. I run my fingers along one of them, feeling its spirals and striations. Inside of me, something leaps. I give …
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Northbound
… moments, just under the nose of la migra , who, to protect commerce, ignore this sort of back and forth. What’s hard is getting farther north, he explains, past the checkpoints, the deserts, the gangsters. But our captain? He’ll … the pictures. The dispatches are then published on our website, and two are selected for inclusion in each issue of …
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