Northern Cardinal Review

eyes grey and granite, sparkling and shining, like the moon light luminously across the lake. beard soft and shaggy like …
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I struggled to diverge my eyes away from the dust of the highway.   The high noon sun seared through …
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A mountain draws in deeper root, tangle, trunk, cloud – the whole of branches threaded through it. This hour – …
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You were raised on grandmother Kisanyuka’s vegetable soups and rock ‘n’ roll. Blue plum gombóc, dumplings. Stuffed cabbage. And talked …
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New love– all-consuming– claims to be worth all the trouble it makes, as it blindly adopts and proffers hope. But …
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‘Small gnats mourn in a wailful choir.”    Keats There is a wasp cemetery on the patio rug, lined up with …
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out the window slick pure white marrow blankets like angels ash falls coming down child’s play, wild-eyed pratfalls a pack …
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The way tall, tall pines acquiesce naked dignified, bare of green leaf balmy night birdsongs. Roots drunk beneath not yet …
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i wonder if trees grieve when they see others of their own kind chopped down, no longer with their dapper …
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The tip of her white cane weaves back and forth sniffing at the sidewalk in front of her like the …
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It swooped Talons tickling snow Speckled white ascending An angel against gray skies Carrying God’s majesty And a lemming for …
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Night drops like a hammer. All day sludge grey snow, slivers of ice.    Fear of falling on paths covered with …
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