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Sep 21, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Unoriented (opens the original)

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    The compass in my hand has stopped pointing north. It swings, settles, and swings again, like it’s looking for something too. It came from an old dusty box next to napkins and ketchup packets in the junk drawer. The woman who kept it never used it as she could always tell which way home was.I left on a Thursday, or what I’ve decided was a Thursday. I took her compass and a small brass key. The key fits nothing I’ve tried.The sun rises in a peculiarly different place each morning. I choose east e

  2. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    What the Light Left Behind (opens the original)

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    This is a little poem I wrote after the passing of my mother earlier this year.What the Light Left BehindThere was a voice that used to hold the dark back,a warmth I didn’t know was doing the holdinguntil it stopped.Now the days arrive out of order —the start line wanders past the end,the end sits down beside the start,and I can’t tell anymorewhich direction I’m walking.But even wandering lineseventually lead somewhere.Something in me learned to be a childin the shape of that voice.Now the shape

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