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Prone to Wander, Lord, I Feel It
by Katerina Parsons | Mar 1, 2020 | Placeless
A robin pulls a fat worm from the ground in the middle of a traffic circle and life suddenly feels too grand, too expansive, too beautiful to possibly come to an end.
the post calvin: Where Are They Now?
by Abby Zwart | Feb 29, 2020 | Placeless
We decided to put this extra day of the year to creative use by checking in with some of our former writers.
Purple Politics
by Jon Gorter | Feb 28, 2020 | Costa Rica
There is only one antidote to party segregation that I know of, only one thing powerful enough to cause us to bridge the divide.
Blue Is the Color I Know the Most
by Brad Zwiers | Feb 27, 2020 | Placeless
“His name is Blue,” we answered.
My Favorite Color Is No Longer Purple
by Annaka Koster | Feb 26, 2020 | Placeless
Six years later and I’m still using that toolkit at least once a month, but something has changed.
Seeing Red
by Katie Van Zanen | Feb 25, 2020 | Placeless
I feel like I was sold a story of America, and a story of my people and who we were, and it turns out that it was mostly a lie,
The Impossible Color of Fatigue
by Leigh Peterson | Feb 24, 2020 | Placeless
I get restless at night.
The Pink Power Ranger Action Figure
by Alex Westenbroek | Feb 23, 2020 | Placeless
It was, in a funny way, my version of Billy Collins’ lanyard. The gift missed the mark.
Gray
by Bethany Cooper | Feb 22, 2020 | Placeless
I am realizing I cannot help this girl if I do not let people know that she exists in the first place.
How to Read Auras, Astaxanthin, and Pink Noise
by Emily Joy Stroble | Feb 21, 2020 | Placeless
As an artist, the desire to be known is tied up in the desire to know. Expression and exploration are linked.
ORANGES
by Gabe Gunnink | Feb 20, 2020 | Washington
sometimes I’m sorry I was not
all green and yellow lights.
Vantablack
by Mary Margaret Healy | Feb 19, 2020 | Placeless
The visual cortex begins to interpret images and even change them before it even processes fully what they are, meaning that we often see things that aren’t actually there.
Liver and White and Everything Nice
by Ben DeVries | Feb 18, 2020 | Placeless
She was also, I should add, a very bad little dog, at least in the day-to-day business of dogging.
To the Woman at Kohl’s Who Gave Me Permission to Love My Pale White Skin
by Laura Sheppard Song | Feb 17, 2020 | Placeless
But I have to remind myself that the difficulty of others’ situations does not invalidate my own.
#e38d1c
by Kyric Koning | Feb 16, 2020 | Placeless
The pencils are another matter.
New Kid and the Power of a Gold Sticker
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Feb 15, 2020 | Placeless
I remember kids’ delight in the graphic novel section, the way they stacked book after book in their arms. But I also remember parents’ reactions when their kids reached that shelf.
Cerulean Waves
by Olivia Harre | Feb 13, 2020 | Holland, Michigan
I run down the dune to be closer to the water and it feels like I’m flying. I don’t think about climbing back up.
sometimes the blue’s just a passing bird
by Abby Zwart | Feb 12, 2020 | Placeless
it’s curious, the way we’re all tinted.
Her Sapphire Eyes
by Matt Cambridge | Feb 11, 2020 | Placeless
There’s something about the spotless sky and sixty-degree temperature that makes me wonder if God is personally sending an answer to our house like a speedy Prime delivery.
Chantilly Lace, Benjamin Moore OC-65
by Jordan Petersen Kamp | Feb 10, 2020 | Placeless
Somewhere between coats two and three you realize that four gallons and the anticipated three coats will not be nearly enough to snuff out the old colors.
Across the Ocean Blue
by Gwyneth Findlay | Feb 9, 2020 | Scotland
Pursuing a dream in English-speaking Europe is the vanilla ice cream with sprinkles of international travel for a North American.
A Yellow Poem
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Feb 7, 2020 | Placeless
But the truth is I’ll follow you like the yellow brick road.
Amateur Abortion Hour
by Josh deLacy | Feb 6, 2020 | Placeless
Only a very few of my friends and family members hate women or God, no matter what Rush Limbaugh and The Nation insist.
#212732: The Color of Anti-Scrolling
by Alex Johnson | Feb 5, 2020 | Placeless
What you see is what you get—the time is the color; the color is the time.
Our Black Lady of Winding Journeys
by Comfort Sampong | Feb 4, 2020 | Placeless
As I deconstruct my singular image of God, I am celebrating the multifaceted images of God as a black woman all around me.
My Mother’s Grey Hair
by Ansley Kelly | Feb 3, 2020 | Placeless
My mother has earned every one of her grey hairs.
Silver Lining
by Cotter Koopman | Feb 2, 2020 | Grand Rapids
I’d love to claim any of the righteous reasons I might use to defend the bus: environmentalism, patience, solidarity with my surroundings… but the truth is I just like it better.
A Case for the Color Red
by Katerina Parsons | Feb 1, 2020 | Placeless
How much do we love red? We crush rocks for it. We smash bugs for it.
I’m Glad You Are Here
by Madison Tissue | Jan 31, 2020 | Placeless
My grandmother is slowly forgetting. Everything.
The Lord of the Fart Noises
by Sophia Medawar | Jan 30, 2020 | Placeless
Jesus’s ambiguous (or else horribly inaccurate) ethnicity isn’t even my main problem with most of the ways Jesus is depicted in media. It’s that he’s often ridiculously and unbearably boring.
