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"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris
September 8, 2025
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"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris
Wes Lydon
September 8, 2025

"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris

Wes Lydon
September 8, 2025


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I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”

Sep 8, 2025
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"In a Grain of Sand" - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
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"In a Grain of Sand" - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
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We are Starseeds  
                   every one of us –  
                                                     you & me,

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"Driving Upstate with My Father" - C.L. O'Dell
Jan 13, 2025
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"Driving Upstate with My Father" - C.L. O'Dell
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at the end of a bad year. Trees begin
to outnumber houses. Rain turns to snow
as fields hang like paintings.

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"That Part in the Music" - Carl Phillips
Oct 21, 2024
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"That Part in the Music" - Carl Phillips
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Poetry, Carl Phillips, Poets.org

Once loyal to a cruel master,
the dog moves like a man who
not so long ago weighed a lot less

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"Why I Respect the Dog" - Catherine Pierce
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"Why I Respect the Dog" - Catherine Pierce
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The dog weighs twelve pounds
and uses them as she pleases.
The king-size bed is not big enough.

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