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Dying for a Cigarette

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A vivid portrait and reflection on a loved one’s passing, their steadfast support, tender moments, and wry wit as well as life’s brutal turns and often bitter end.

I long to kiss the image of my death

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I long to kiss the image of my death

Written in the early 1960s, this poem explores a mother’s connection to her youngest child through shifting seasons and quiet moments of reflection, lingering in love, identity, and loss across time.

Jacqueline Rosalie Montchalin

A Ritual of Forgetting

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A Ritual of Forgetting

Some memories refuse to leave, even when you burn, bury, or drown them. They linger in ash, sand, and salt—stubborn as ghosts.

Nathan Roberton

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How We’re Approaching Written Symbols in the Bronze Age

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How We’re Approaching Written Symbols in the Bronze Age

This satirical work might have been unearthed by archeologists to reveal deep and immutable truths about primitive humans and their encounters with disruptive storytelling technologies.

Nathan Roberton

Stars

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Stars

Is our fate etched upon us from afar or are we floating in an endless unreasoning dance of chance? This poem invites you to dwell in rather than resolve this ancient question.

Nathan Roberton

Dying for a Cigarette

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Dying for a Cigarette

A vivid portrait and reflection on a loved one’s passing, their steadfast support, tender moments, and wry wit as well as life’s brutal turns and often bitter end.

I long to kiss the image of my death

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I long to kiss the image of my death

Written in the early 1960s, this poem explores a mother’s connection to her youngest child through shifting seasons and quiet moments of reflection, lingering in love, identity, and loss across time.

Jacqueline Rosalie Montchalin

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