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Larry Levis: Make a Law So That the Spine Remembers Wings

So that the truant boy may go steady with the State,
So that in his spine a memory of wings
Will make his shoulders tense & bend
Like a thing already flown

July 19, 2024 · 16 Comments

Aric Sleeper: ‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool to Preserve Our Natural Resources

There are underutilized legal weapons already on the books that can help fight big corporations and preserve the planet’s natural resources, such as watersheds and large forests… That legal weapon, a component of property law, is a concept known as the ‘public trust.’

January 6, 2023 · Leave a comment

Charles Bukowski: Odes to Los Angeles

man mowing the lawn across the way from me
don’t you see the young girls walking down the sidewalks now
with knives in their purses?

June 19, 2020 · 8 Comments

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