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The Colors of Dinner

Confronting the self through poetry, prose, and painting— exploring identity, love, loss, and the uncomfortable often messy work of being.

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  1. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Peter Pan is Unemployable (opens the original)

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    What a dream! To never grow up. To hold on, like a bur on boots, to the freedom of a child’s easy living.That child flipped rocks to find dirt and rejoiced in the finding of it. Etched hieroglyphics into tree bark, and practiced for weeks to make loon calls with his hands. He stomped puddles in rainstorms and saved earth worms from roasting on sidewalks. He had no thoughts of tomorrow and cried when he turned ten because, “I will never be single digits again.”But he did turn ten. And then thirte

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