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Graham Murtaugh

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greener pastures

Graham Murtaugh

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The soil is rucked with my kicking / / Nails quick-cloven, roots in my hair / I taste dirt, the worm / / Paper-thin light presses / Down…

a good friend knocks

Graham Murtaugh

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in the dark place / in the tumult / / a white thread / or bit of cord / found / / on the shore / / a song / across the waves / in the…

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Graham Murtaugh

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Live well. / Live slowly. / Live with intention. / / Do not hurry. / Do not strive. / / Dig in. Settle. / / Know the names, / the…

Icarus

Graham Murtaugh

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this is the inescapable gravity / he lived under / the swinging pendulum / dragged him lower kept him / inherently grounded tethered / to…

Hands up, screaming

Graham Murtaugh

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side by side locked in / like a shotgun / they ride their heads / up, hearts staring out / the wide wide window of / their…

Lampyris noctiluca

Graham Murtaugh

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Hide just inside / a perfect halo / / red plastic flashlight / beams back / / Captain Nemo / Frodo Aslan Artax / / Sheets shift / a…

Poor Concrete Yogi

Graham Murtaugh

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is so inflexible. So rigid / in his happy bearish grin, / his jaunty little hat. Upraised paw / to the rain, to wind & / scorching sun, to…

Duck Hunt

Graham Murtaugh

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My father sounds like an engine starting in the cold, / the phlegm turning over in his throat – ack hack hack – / steam billowing…

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Ink Node, 2009–2021

Brian Christian

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Ink Node was conceived in Seattle in 2008 by Brian Christian and Evan Nagle, who imagined a different model for what a literary publication could…

The People’s Pandemic Prayer

W. Vandoren Wheeler

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// Matthew 6: 9-13 // // / Our (Dead / Beat) Dad, / who art, I hope, / in heaven… holy / shit, man— what / the actual hell? / / Give us this…

Aww/Awe

W. Vandoren Wheeler

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/ (for Martha Henning) // / At the copy machine, / we swap a couple / / phantom limb stories / impressed upon us / / by veterans’…

Scrawled Out

W. Vandoren Wheeler

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The hate note I shouted // at the back wall of my skull / I angrily over-edited / / so long the spittle / I intended to smear / across…

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