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Robert Wood Lynn
Once again it is fall all around us
there are sports teams praying
for god to smite their opponents
which you know I love like I love
the idea of god walking dripless out
of the ocean a monster no one can be
sure is here to protect or destroy
our seaside cities and I love that we can
scream whatever we want knowing
it can be fixed later in the subtitles
and I love the scrub pine for looking
exactly how it sounds and I love
memory for continuing to be the past
with a leak in it somehow I love you
a little better every day surprised by it
each morning the way I am always
surprised by how goats make the sound
of drunks making goat noises
from the journal SIXTH FINCH
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Poet Will Harris on Free Will and Politics

"We live under an economic system that reproduces suffering and curtails its expression, sentimentalising certain forms of suffering and making others invisible. I guess that’s puzzling. Every day we give our passive (and active) consent to a state empowered to make violence a necessary precondition of its continuing being."

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M. L. Smoker on "Heart Butte, Montana"


"It is then next to impossible for me to ignore the echoes that reverberate from beneath and across the earth’s surface. There is both a human and non-human story here. Such places formed by millennia, marked by water and ice, light and dark. Of shifting rock and the new formation of land, plateau, mountain range. Humans were taken in and the land cared for us—we were gifted survival and song by our plant and animal family."
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