Riding the Music Wave with Chelsea Hicks
Music is really important to me, but finding music that I like can be difficult. It’s not about genre. It’s about a sense of uniqueness or distinctiveness in the song...
From "Stock Pond"
Justin Cox takes on deer hunting and ecology in his serial poem, "Stock Pond."
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From "Stock Pond"
I didn’t put your place (cafo – concentrated animalfeeding operation) on Counterglow.By now I guess the algo knows. I don’t know what I wanted to save – my embarrassment. To...
From Sugarcane to Diabetes
At thirty-two an urgent care doctor called and told me that my fasting blood sugar of 397 mg/dL was dangerously high. Fasting blood sugar for me should have been 85-120...
From Whale Lore
In the harbor, moon jellies pushed their smocks through the tide as the steady barking of sea lions tickled the gulls into frenzied screams. On the Bay today at the...
My Unreliable Source is a Bird
My mother walked. Every day. Five miles. Sometimes ten. Rain never stopped her. Nor 110-degree temps. There’s Martha, people said, from as far away as three hundred feet. Her gait...
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