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Ellen McGrath Smith: Dream, 2025

brown faces falling toward us, arms 
and legs dislocated by updraft, indigenous faces we knew from our daily rounds to buy groceries and tacos

January 1, 2026 · 11 Comments

Laure-Anne Bosselaar: First Day of the Year

It is early. A bird flies deep into the sky —
into that large silence

January 1, 2024 · 18 Comments

James Crews: New Year

It’s so cold on this January morning
the condensation in the corner of each window
has frozen to the glass, cannot be wiped away.

January 19, 2023 · 9 Comments

Barbara Hamby: Ode to Forgetting the Year

remember the day at the beach when the sun
began to explain Heidegger to you while thunderclouds
rumbled up from the horizon like Nazi submarines?

January 7, 2023 · 12 Comments

Leslie McGrath: Bedding Down

Our annual animal shaped day by dayas the world shifts and shifts again O the plushchestnut coatsoft mouthfor carryingthe newyear in O skinnytail tappingbashfullycirclinginto sleep. Copyright 2018 Leslie McGrath

December 31, 2018 · 1 Comment

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