Northern Cardinal Review

Evidence of faith is everywhere today. Trees trained to grow two dimensionally. A dumpster full of wood, a mattress, lamp, …
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The sky sweeps its damp hands over my hair. I cannot wait to see what the rain gives you. The …
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Love gathers at the corner of a mouth, hoards foreign-language newspapers, ripples throughout the Mennonite community. Love is a knuckle …
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I’m not quite sure how it happened, when it all unraveled like a bicycle’s chain to a reference point for …
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Quiet squabbling segued into quivering lips and welling tears, even embracing when they found her sprawled out on the shoulder …
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Trash Night on Ivy Ave. Racoons clamber like bickering drunkards. Hesitating atop the back gate they drop for the feast. …
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the night sky will be a consolation whatever the star says — early morning the lake’s tranquility beneath my fingertips …
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401 drive many kilometers of kilometers — summer stalks climb tomatoes missing dour skull chews — light vibrates west-ward the …
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walking on seaweed ebb and tide   seagulls wild roses root in sand — three crows sitting on blue ash bough …
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The moons of winter The glow, flames wander. The storyteller, dreams and the wonders of the world. — The night, …
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The Plumb Tree Japanese beetles shredded each leaf. Now I watch lace silhouettes sieve the wind and white sky. — …
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