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fable

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I remember it / clear and cloudless as the skies / that were always blue in those days

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:March 24, 2026

umbra

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Flutter, black flag / in the light breeze / Tremble / fade to every shade / in none

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:March 17, 2026

web

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These lines were meant to trace / a map we all could follow

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:February 24, 2026

relic

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On the front of the garage / above a wall that was a door / is a metal loop / screwed to crumbling melamine

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:January 27, 2026

stalling

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Can we just / gaze? / she asks, cozy

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:December 30, 2025

sweeper

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Eight-hundred slender fingers / on a bound hand / gently kiss the contours / of the plane

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:November 18, 2025

Still Life, Pond in Autumn

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Kieran sat unmoving in his equally motionless kayak, the bright yellow plastic divided in two perfect halves by the mirror of the water’s surface.

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:November 4, 2025

bound

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The natives fling themselves / with abandon / into walls

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:October 21, 2025

posteriority

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Butt cheek! / 
Butt cheek! / 
my daughter proclaims / 
to the world

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  • Post author:January River
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post published:September 23, 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
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