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  1. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    Five Decades (opens the original)

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    The Acorn Woodpecker does not go alone.Siblings share the cache,the nest, the soft raising.They returnseason after seasonto the same tree, the same souls —not because they mustbut because they have learnedwhat pine-green safety smells like.Sweet. Sure. Steadfast.We were London.Or was it Essex?Black faux-leather burning our thighsin the orange Hillman on French motorways.Have you got something I could be sick in?says the radio play on cassette.Big Grandma’s lovely chocolate Lovelies,double butter

  2. Issue · Jul 18, 2026

    The Space Between (opens the original)

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    Clear silver moonrising each nightacross a flecked skybehind ebony clouds.Another night, ending the day.A returning.The evening breezerustles lime tree leaves,murmurs the long grass.The heft of today’s cadmium sunheld in radiating oaksand ancient furrowed bark.A distant churring of the Nightjar,heard, rarely seen,signals the day, now past, dismantling.Some sweet. Some sour.Deeper still, a quiet sorting.What can be kept.What must be let go.A tide pulls through, unseen,carrying off what doesn’t ta

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