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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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If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood
… he hadn’t bothered changing out of. He wished Shawn could come back from wherever he was hiding. “Well, no. Of course, … trying them out on the bus driver who was glad for the company and helpful in suggesting phases of his own. It was … clasping them together, then unclasping them, sliding his false teeth in and out with his tongue in a way he never did …
Life in America
… the book of the dead it is written she had 15 children: 2 died before her, 2 went off to America, and 11 survived her … Clark of Nebraska, daughter of Edward and Augusta, was to become in her turn wife to Edwin Samuel Nelson, second son of … of the evergreens they had always loved. And in the annals of Kansas agriculture they say this of Johnson …
Songs for Solstice
… How tall, how wide, how deep is all Grave love, who must compute the yardage By measure of a primal rule. Against my … inch. INTRINSIC COIN UPON my metal’s passive flan The last die printed shall erase Al1 other lettered legends and All … descend the forging blow. Falls through the winter sun the die! Imprinted now is last device. Forevermore whoever must …
Fine Distinctions
Of Calamities, Catastrophes, and Disasters
… have been a disaster, had we proof that he was destined to die young and in such unhappy circumstances. A calamity … to crop loss, such as a blight. By further extension, it also meant a military defeat, an event that destroyed a crop … which in Greek has the root meaning “to turn upside down,” comes from the historian Herodotus, who tells us of a king …
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Snow, Houston, 1974
… the hood of his jacket hid his face. “Is that right? How come you know everything?” Buddy hadn’t meant that. His toes … mother taught medical technology, and on weekends, he studied enormous books with tissue-thin pages. Most nights … the sky. He said it hadn’t snowed in Houston since 1948, 26 years before. Twenty-six years was 20 more than Buddy had …
All That I Love
… forget the dead. My son’s muscles, my daughter’s nervous studies, smoking, the way she can, in an excited mood, talk … am like a moth around a light when into my house my one son comes, full of life, to sweep me off my feet, and laughing … the kink my brother passed on, driving full of speed, to die there. The road is not improved. Fresh and alive instead …
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