Gossamer clouds cling to the slate greys and marble of the hills and pines on my alluring mountain. Droplets of rain cling to my tanned skin, blonde hair, and long lashes. My vertebrae shudder as I gaze at this moonstone chapel. Here, I feel small but significant, a fragment of rosy glass in the collective […]
You no longer remember when I call. I picture my voice as a hand waving strident outside an opaque window, hope snatching at its ragged edges, while on the other end, you stand with the receiver to your ear, gazing at a dust mote just stirring in the slant of morning light across your kitchen table,
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Iron Triangles represent a nefarious political game. When we study our government’s behavior in minute detail, we see clearly that under-the-table dealings and gentlemen’s agreements contribute to the majority of American political decisions. Although corporations don’t have true political designations, the more influential and wealthy of these companies have a hand in setting the political, fiscal,
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The day out my window is drained of hue, washed grey with an arch of clouds carrying the embryo of a storm and a summons to the season that fills me with equal parts longing and grief. Cottonwoods bend and breathe deep and ragged under the wind’s insistent touch. I cannot help wondering what they are saying.
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Beginning in 1994, wolves relocated from Montana and Canada began their reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. This was initially an attempt to correct the extermination of native wolves over the last two hundred years, but something unexpected happened as a result. What followed from this reintroduction is termed a “trophic cascade,” or a
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Recently, troubled teenagers in residential treatment programs throughout America have been brutally marched to death, sexually abused, raped, electrocuted over 30 times a day (warning: upsetting video), restrained until nearly dead, and more. However, the gory details of several cases aren’t the worst part. The worst part, according to testimony before Congress and much evidence, is
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