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August 10, 2026

Lunassagh, often rendered as Lughnasadh, is celebrated on the first day of August and begins as a festival of first fruits, the moment when the land’s long patience finally tips its hand, and its people…

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April 27, 2026

Pen(z)ance

the idea of a stroll through the garden gained currency
as other aims waned and withered,
yet her penchant for distraction often spoiled such a ramble.
today’s turn could forgive others, though,
and the…

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February 2, 2026

Deliquesce

Winter plods like a

capricious and wild tramp

in shoes of river stones

through February’s gnawed  
vestiges, boundless and out of rhyme.

The sky is a purple bruise

in this season of disappearance,

a…

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January 12, 2026  

If, as a society, we continue to increase our likelihood of failure by perpetuating a toxic labeling effect, drawing on psychological concepts in which assigning a name to a behavior turns it into a self-fulfilling…

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January 5, 2025

New Year  

I went around the back of myself
looking to hitch the cart to a cause
whose truth is as fantastic as 

my imagination might be.  

I don't want to end up at the
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November 24, 2025  

Over time, Thanksgiving, as it became known, developed into a popular national holiday in the United States, in part due to several presidential proclamations, especially Abraham Lincoln's during the Civil War. Long before that, Europeans…

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October 20, 2025

West Penwith

I follow the old trail,
where the path is dense beneath,
and the crisp lunge of autumn charges the air.
It begins proud of the churchyard,
where the gravestones stand like silent sentinels, …

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September 22, 2025

At exactly 2:19 PM EST this afternoon, it will be autumn in my neck of the woods. Opinions vary regarding the official start and end of the season, of course, as astronomical fall is based…