Author: Yonder

Beneath These Southern Trees

by Brian Longacre I am an old child beneath these towering trees, whose limbs scrape sky, pick cotton clouds that slowly crawl across more slowly crawling mountainsides. These old, Southern trees, raised by ancient water and...

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Belatedly

by Aimee Kling   Belatedly, I thought to ask you about it – I was standing in the yogurt aisle, bleary-eyed on a Thursday, running through my never-ending list  of where and when and who to be, and I remembered that time on...

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Baby

by Hannah McLeod   What everyone knows about the song “Baby” by Ariel Pink is that it feels like the type of song that plays as you become untethered to your surroundings, levitate and then float away while watching the...

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Ancestral Callings

by Josephine Bloomfield   Listening to the stories of my Grandmother and Aunts weaving in and out of the past and present was always my favorite way to understand how to walk in the world.  I remember reading their lined...

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17

by Boyd Allsbrook   Leave your parents’ home at dawn and get a biscuit at Bojangles. Do not as yet consume this. Now go—down the sleeping interstate till you hit the turn-off for old Leicester hwy. Empty road. Blue-grey...

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