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Commentary: Three Secret Techniques Etc.

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I wrote most of an essay, then realized it amounted to five-hundred words on how “writing is hard.” So I scrapped it.

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Commentary
  • Post published:August 19, 2025

countryside

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The rug in the room looks like Portugal

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:August 12, 2025

Commentary: Slowing Down to Speed Up

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I’m still publishing something every Tuesday, but new poetry/prose/art will be every other week. That gives me the time I need for longer, more complex stuff.

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Commentary
  • Post published:August 5, 2025

Catch and Release

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The fishing hole looked almost too good to be true. The current would slowly carry the lure right past the submerged trunk, where hungry fish might be hiding. “Catch and release,” Brent muttered…

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Prose
  • Post published:July 29, 2025

luxury

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The Route One Prada 
has seen better days

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:July 22, 2025

anxiety

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As the drugs take hold 
the mirror melts

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:July 15, 2025

inattentive

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There must be a cruelty school 
or a church of unkindness

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:July 8, 2025

Withdrawal

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He felt no pain. Not yet. He could see the pain there, of course…he knew what it was, and knew that he could take it out, pick it up, allow himself to feel it…

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Prose
  • Post published:July 1, 2025

compensate

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Castles Made of Sand

I made something 
It’s nice but 
that’s not why I made it

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:June 24, 2025

reservoir

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Here on Maple Street 
the blacktop grade is off 
a few degrees…

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:June 17, 2025
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