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Sertraline (50 MG)

by Adonis Diaz When your doctor tells you “It’s time to get back on an antidepressant” You begin to wonder What you did wrong  You begin to ask yourself If you can remember a time Where you felt joy Or simply okay You wonder if there was ever a time that you didn’t hear a hollow symphony Of…

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Butterfly Solipsism

by D.R. James A butterfly’s flapping over Costa Rica,it’s sometimes considered, could initiatethe chain that leads to tornados in Toledo,hopping and ripping the heartfrom every-other quotidian home. Or maybe its deft stretch-and-glidecould instigate the violent Mississippi’ssurprising rise beyond its subtle, stolid realm—the dainty queen behind that vast rebellion. So I…

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Geese in V formation

If Only I Moved by Instinct

by D.R. James Life has been a grand migrationto where you are today!            –well known wisdom I didn’t know! Otherwise,when those raggedy squadronsclamored overhead last evening— three V’s disarrayedlike frayed arrow feathers, their leaders insistent as clownswith braying horns, honkingfor plane geometry— I would have…

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Great blue heron posturing on a log in a river

Great Blue Heron

by D.R. James           Look, I want to love this world          as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get          to be alive          and know it.             …

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