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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Love Is In a Late Stage of the World* (opens the original)

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    Where did you go? Love, I mean?Once you seemed so loud in my ears, I could not hear for want and fill of you. Now all is quiet. Winter quiet, when even the suggestion of sound seems ill placed. And so, it is, in a late stage of the world, in this late stage of the world where to express gentility, to cry, to expose a soft underbelly can get you pummeled.And so, I will return to Clay Hill where the poet lived, eeking out a meager living among the farmers, loggers, and bunion-footed waitresses who

  2. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    WHAT HAYDEN CARRUTH COULD HAVE TAUGHT BERNIE (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="377" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!puo4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8140de4-f006-49c8-8c0a-fbc42246447b_474x377.jpeg"

  3. Issue · Sep 5, 2026

    A Swallowtail Named Tigerlily (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PVUB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b914773-3db9-4cf7-85c7-2c3ab067cd19_3888x2592.j

  4. Issue · Aug 6, 2026

    IN A BLUE CANOE PLAYING A KAZOO FOR AMANDA JANOO (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    THE CASE FOR LIBRARIES (REVISITED) (opens the original)

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