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The old woman next door died.
Obituary says she lived alone,
lived to ninety-two, outlived
her husband by twenty years. Doesn't say
she took care of the neighborhood strays, left ...  [+]

Late August, and those of us who'd burned our necks helping
our fathers move sprinkler pipes from one field to the next, or
who'd held the pan to catch the milk, or cried at the newness
of a ...  [+]

surfaced from basin slough stagnant with blockage / high water content begets moss / slows vegetal decay / results in acidified void devoid of minerals and oxygen / idyllic condition for sphagnum to ...  [+]