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Jim Daniels: Garbage Picking in the Nice Neighborhoods

On Wednesday nights, my brothers and I sometimes hiked a mile or so north further from Detroit, into the stretched world of Bigger—bigger lawns, cars, houses. Some neighborhoods even had … Continue reading

June 6, 2025 · 9 Comments

Jim Daniels: Ghost Guns

Plush Jesus dolls scattered
on the picked-over discount table
at the dollar store

December 31, 2024 · 10 Comments

Jim Daniels: If a Poem is a House

How many doors does a poem have?

October 22, 2024 · 11 Comments

Jim Daniels: Roaming the Galleries

No one ever stopped on Rome Street in Warren, Michigan,
to set up their easel and paint, not even on John B.
after 6 members of the Park family died in a Christmas fire

September 17, 2024 · 13 Comments

Jim Daniels: My Security Question

The closet in her room
remains as she left it
clothes losing their dark
interest. Ghosts in the dust.

June 2, 2022 · 5 Comments

Jim Daniels: Strawberry

the final time I saw my mother
she was trying to find
the last strawberry on her plate

May 8, 2022 · 6 Comments

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