Best Smudging Podcasts (2025)

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29 A Cozy Yule Gathering 31:18

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5d ago31:18

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In this special seasonal episode of The New England Herbary Podcast, you're invited into A Cozy Yule Gathering — a slow, reflective journey through the traditions, plants, and quiet wisdom of the Winter Solstice. Together, we explore the ancient celebration of Yule and the longest night of the year, reflecting on how our ancestors marked this turni…

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Obey The Divine Masculine 39:42

1M ago39:42

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In this episode, JT Grounded bids farewell to Rachel Porter (formerly R****** N*******) in a discussion with new co-host Wolf Yahweh-Madsen, JT's lawyer/nutritionist/financial adviser, about the divine masculine. They discuss what the difference between toxic vs. divine masculinity, how facts are for men only and how Rachel satisfies her husband wi…

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"When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain..." by Callie Jennings 2:20

2M ago2:20

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When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain, Google Keeps Feeding Me Distressingly Hot Factoids About Hermaphroditic Earthworm SexUntil I thought to check, I thought I knew:worms emerge from dirt to taron the run from drowning. Actually no one understandstheir reasons. Maybeworms emerge from dirt to tarwhen vibrations ape a predat…

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"Untitled" by Muhammad Rabih 2:21

2M ago2:21

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we did not hold handsoften we clenched legsunder the tablehands were too publicfor two who did not knowhow feelings socailizewe sat on a benchon the cornichewatching the nile at noonit was full and calmwe could hear the wind singto the trees on its sidesyou held my handand I lookedas you took it towards youthe wind stopped singingand my heart wante…

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"Unassigned" by Fiona Martinez 1:35

2M ago1:35

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after Ocean Vuong and why this want for permanence surround sound my life with backupssound out my name and it’s almost a library flower pressed screen dazedstillness a twinkie and her wrapper wordsshe presses in the shape of a body I too will one day be glad I am no longer violetand instead fertilizer no mama’s memoir nomama to read my memoir will…

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"[Tonight you lay on your own couch...]" by JeFF Stumpo 0:56

2M ago0:56

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Tonight you lay on your own couch, trying to head off fixation. Your cigar is just a. You hold it oscillating between Cuban and. You are not. You tell yourself this. You flip through your notebook, and it is filled with pictures of you riding the night. The cigar is in your fingers, which place it to your lips. You take a luxurious puff. Wake up, y…

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"The Way to Keep Going in Your Twenties" by Charlotte Alexander 1:32

2M ago1:32

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do not be afraid of your own heart beatingthere must be chocolate maybe even dailyI would recommend buying the better cheesedrink orange juice in the morning it will helpdrink wine or whiskey and write things downit is always good to know your own handwritingremember how clean sheets feel and hot bathskeep lip balm by your bed keep a tissue in your…

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"Sugar Bloom & Smudge" by C. Rivera 1:39

2M ago1:39

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What bloomed from grief came instinct, came wrath.The aftermath of my longing will show on your back like Lichtenberg figures after the subtlety of a strike.My beautiful friend, I do think heat causes molecules to excite,and if you let me,we’ll honor the burn marks after this smudging.But not before prayer, not beforekneeling behind youyour scent, …

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"Potato" by C. Late 1:27

2M ago1:27

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three soldiers in tinfoil jacketsroasting on the bottom oven rackshe’d cut the ends off one too long for its own goodhacked chunks from the pudgy pocked onesliced the largest of the lot into quarterspulling used foil from a crumpled stash shemanhandled the starchy mealinto silver uniformstried to unwrap and uncrinklebut eventually abandoned hopesup…

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"Progressively Ambitious Poem for the Future" by Dylan Emmons 1:42

2M ago1:42

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I want to write about eternity too just like the catsprobing at their breakfastsor your two week old hands Isadora brushing my beard like sleepwalkingwindshield wipers or the way the sun uses maple leaves as lampshades if we can spend as much of ourselves in time as out of it if our conch shell earskeep after months the cymbal samba of the sea if y…

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"New York Summer" by Jenna Cardinale 1:00

2M ago1:00

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Storms– Waveaction– Sandcrash– A kite comingclose–Wobblingmoon– Desirework– These optimisms–There’s your thunder– Your downpouracross the street–A kid beating a treewith its stick– Pantingabout every day– Too hot to worry about plot–Chewingice into the mic–Today a hundred-year-old womandied– SeparatelyI saw so manymaggots later–As a recluseI really…

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"Naked in Manhattan" by Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro 2:19

2M ago2:19

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after Chappell RoanThe cold knows me in ways you never will.Darkness clamps her hand over the city’s mouth.Still, light. Music rises like smoke. And God is anythingbut subtle — this joint, our first kiss. Now my heart’sa helium balloon — pink, no strings attached.Sailing high among the lanterns — paper clouds in a makeshift sky in a lesbian bar whe…

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"May 10th" by Jamie Hood 2:17

2M ago2:17

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May 10thPerseverance is terminal, Every day dully getting up.The end times keep edging usBut I’m a Taurus—I prefer to comeAnd to go another round.They shot Katy PerryInto orbit, then let her back in.We turned the mission into memesTo stop thinking of burned old growth forests,Boiling oceans, where all the bees have gone.In the shuttle there was som…

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"Letter to the Editor of the Old Farmer's Almanac, Robert Bailey Thomas" by Lauren Mills 2:24

2M ago2:24

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I have been made aware of the fact that you died in 1846, but am hoping this will reach you regardless. I have heard you are the foremost expert on solar activity, weather patterns, and astronomical cycles, as well as the best times to fish and how to build a community. I have heard you lived and worked in New Hampshire, which is where I have recen…

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"Lawful Good" by Alexa Vallejo 1:08

2M ago1:08

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Solidarity is pissing in adjacent stalls. A godly marriage is a throuple with Christ. Dude was a real trove of sword lore. We cheered for the biracial babies. At the racist wedding, the pastor praised Korean cars & submissive wives.Cousins snuck liquor into the dry reception while sober Christians gnashed their teeth. So began the diaspora. One spe…

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"The Evolution of Missing You" by Juniper Danger 2:00

2M ago2:00

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April 2024Wish you were here is no synonym for I miss you, though of course I do.Wish you were here Like I know you would love thisLIke I want to remember this with you, not to youWish we could rebuild the subtleties to each other and build the detailsFall over each other in the telling Want you to feel this first hand, absorbing it tooCount you am…

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"Beholden" by John Muro 1:25

2M ago1:25

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“There can be but one teacher – nature. She must always be consulted.” - Camille PissarroI’m wondering how best to preserve this day when I find myself summoned outside into the warming light, tossingmy net beyond the low islands and the jagged edge of the Sound, hoping its threads return in gilded attire, yielding a tangle of blessings culled from…

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"4-tongue poem" by Chiara Crisafulli 1:06

2M ago1:06

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"4-tongue poem" by Chiara Crisafulli by VOICEMAIL POEMSBy VOICEMAIL POEMS

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28 Samhain 11:00

2M ago11:00

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Exploring the Thin Veil – Mugwort and Dream Work for Samhain As the veil thins and the season shifts, we enter a time for remembering, dreaming, and listening to the whispers between worlds. In this reflective episode, I share the ancient roots of Samhain, explore the sacred symbolism of dreams, and introduce you to Mugwort — one of the most powerf…

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27 Agrimony- The Herb that Teaches Us When to Remove the Mask 18:46

4M ago18:46

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Have you ever smiled while your heart was breaking? In this episode, Brenda J. Sullivan explores the quiet wisdom of agrimony, an herb long associated with hidden sorrow and emotional healing. Through personal story, folklore, and herbal insight, she invites listeners to reflect on the "cheerful mask" we often wear and what it means to take it off.…

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"Work Ghazal" by Jarrett Moseley 1:36

5M ago1:36

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The last night we spoke, you said we could make this work.I sold the bed we used to sleep on, to forget, hoping it would work. I left the pink book you gave me on my desk, your lettersin my drawer, the ones where you said love is work. I left the memory of us sleeping on a cliffside in my headbut deleted the picture we took, dead-eyed from waking u…

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"We Promise to Protect Each Other" by Lauren Dotson 2:38

5M ago2:38

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We promise to protect each other After Willie Perdomo which means we pinky swear it which means we draw our pinkies like switchblades from brassy knuckles which means i hold your hands between the pocket space where we keepthe taser between the thumb & index the hammer between the index & middle the cross between the middle & ring & the middle is m…

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"Things I'd Still Do" by Dré Pontbriand 2:34

5M ago2:34

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Get in vans with strangers: a Palo-Santo heavy Chevy G20 with a sonnet-spilling prophet; a red 70’s Volkswagen shaggin' wagon with three long-haired surfers headed South; a fuzzy pink and purple pimped out festival-goer’s fantasy stocked with the best candy—one taste and I make-out with God. Talk myself out of a felony on one side of the border, ha…

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"these days, everybody wants to hear the prophecies of yore..." by Aparna Paul 2:59

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"these days, everybody wants to hear the prophecies of yore at a mcdonald’s drive through, and i just don’t think that that’s what i’m after"& when my friend pulls up & the speaker starts crackling with some eldritch horror, & it asks,do you want to die with that?& my friend looks over at me & asks, well, do you?& i say i’m good with just the pepsi…

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"The Goose: A Diptych" by Devan Murphy 1:56

5M ago1:56

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I dreamed of a canoe, and of the two of us: I was new on the lake. Streaming through the murk, the cellar scent of blue and brown water, and you, my new love, saying nothing, only rowing us backwards deftly. At the lake’s deepest point: a miniature goose—a full grown adult, though not five inches high, resting on an island of ice, mid-June. Tenderl…

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"The Dawn Raids" by Cindy Kurukaanga 1:28

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Chocolate Polynesian brown was beckoned to the land of the long white cloudto work in factories, freezing works, docks,was beckoned to work hard,send money back to islands of hibiscus and frangipaniBut chocolate Polynesian brown got swallowed,digested in a stomach churning with acid-filled hateThe outcome? That other shade of brown//But dawn, becau…

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"Sunday Tea" by Derrick Austin 1:29

5M ago1:29

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I studied Italian painters, Giorgione, Titian. At one job, I’m a glorified secretary.I answer the phone in my professional voice and sell gaudy urns to luxe addresses. My neighbor listens patiently, amused by my young life. We’re the only Black gay men in our building,so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups. For the heart, he says, adding…

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"sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life" by Sarena Brown 2:23

5M ago2:23

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so you do the next best thing and you cut your hairyou follow a youtube video and a confident-man-hair-stylist-type shows you how using a mannequin head and swift movementson your turn you take two ponytails and the shittiest pair of scissors money can buy and you snip away at your kinda-long hair until it becomes less long and hopefully more shape…

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"Poem Written in iPhone Note via Voice to Text While Driving" by Jill McLaughlin 1:10

5M ago1:10

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People fell in love during the fall of the Roman Empire and people were falling in love in 1930s Germany, the Nazis were coming into power and regular German citizens were going on dates and falling in love.I have new tires on my car so I feel invincible driving to you through the snow, I am driving to you and a song is on the radio that reminds me…

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"My Last Summer with Dad, 2023" by Annie Powell Stone 1:12

5M ago1:12

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Dad was on the couch, mostlystarving to death in front of uscancer, stage IV(for this type, many don’t catch the earlier stages, and of course there aren't later ones)we hung pinecone bird feeders close to the house, bringing Nature nearwhen he couldn't go outwe talked about our shared favorites: the praying mantis, femalecardinal, blue herons, bla…

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"Let's Be Monsters" by Maia Brown-Jackson 1:40

5M ago1:40

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Let’s be monsters.Let’s be witches and bitchesand cronesand justhideous.Let’s be powerful.Let’s take and take and takeand grab the world,justfucking hold on with clawsand teethand refuse to let go.And let’s be gluttonous.Let’s devour.Let’s see what we want,what delights us,and let’s inhale it with noregard for propriety.With no regard for you.Let’s…

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"Keep your Popcorn on Fridays, We Want a Living Wage" by Jaime Jacques 1:33

5M ago1:33

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Three weeks to Christmas. We bide our time on the line by conjuring posties of the past—side-burned and handcuffed, the ones in ‘81who dared to defy back to work orders. Got the whole country maternity leave. Now we fight traffic in trucks that hit 40 degrees, deliver an endless stream of Sephora and Nespresso,spend hours alone with the clang of ke…

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"guide to melancholy (ft. jar of olives) by Annabelle Chen 1:24

5M ago1:24

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if you are sad: sit, silent, and bathe in the brine of an olive jar. let the salt consume you till you are preserved in acidity rather than memory, and the blood in your veins might well be that of the ocean. if they ask you how it happened, say: “i didn’t know how to swim.” this is false, but so are the teeth they blatantly lie through. (you do no…

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"First Cumbia" by Tatiana Chaterji 1:06

5M ago1:06

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Lake Berryessa, azure at our backs the man from Toluca slips melozenges from under his tongue Spanish alive in my mouth touches the screen reaching deep lights from his phone plays memy first cumbia: chee chih chihwoodsmoke unfurls decomposed flesh dusted bones awakeningat his cue turning slight curving threaded magnets loop khee ki-ki khee ki-ki k…

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"decline mantra (aldi at 46th and market)" by Diandra Williams 1:54

5M ago1:54

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"There is a look one sees,the mouth somehow desperate–…the fear of death, taking as its formdedication to hunger…" - Louise Glückb/c one day i will want for nothingb/c one day i will not wantb/c one day i will need nothing to want forb/c one day my body will cease to functionb/c one day my body will function outside itselfb/c one day my body will c…

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"Bench Clearing" by Marissa DeSantis 1:08

5M ago1:08

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My dad diedand sports came back.We wore masks at his funeralto avoid being next, I guess.The night beforeJoe Kelly fired at Carlos Correa’s headand cleared the benchand I get it,because what other response is there to feeling cheatedthan bearing witness to your hate blossomingfrom your body,your spite-filled fingers gripping the splitting seams,you…

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"Can't Do Without You" by Scarlett Hume 2:28

8M ago2:28

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You’re like a paragraph in a book, he says, folding a dollar bill into an origami ring at the bar, and I’m not sure if it’s an insult. He slips the ring onto my forefinger: don’t get too excited. Should I apologize to you or myself or the woman who loved him before? I stay for the story. He is the only one who can make me laugh during an argument. …

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"When You Don't Feel Like Yourself" by Kenny Mitchell 2:55

8M ago2:55

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Double-check you have not morphed into wax.Are the appendages protruding from the trunkof your body still soft skin, or have you hardenedyour armor like they taught you in eighth gradewhen a car flattened your cat at your Christmas party?You cried. You watched as he twitchedand his insides squelched onto the pavement,and when he became still, his b…

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"WHEN THE BLUES COME (ALWAYS GO FOR THE CATS)" by David J. Schast 1:46

8M ago1:46

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When the blues find where I’ve been hiding,They pile on like puppies—so damn excited to see me. These days, I’m into cats, brother. You know, maybe one will rub up against me,once in awhile, or meow enoughuntil I give it what it wants—usually my food and then, my appetite. But the dogs, man…they just don’t stop—yipping, nipping, slobbering—all fuck…

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"Uncle Loser The Knight of Swords" by RJ Equality Ingram 2:57

8M ago2:57

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My mother’s half brother wore a blue herringbone tweed jacket with padded elbows to her funeral / The kind worn by a caricature of a substitute teacher or traveling salesman or a freshly sober high school dropout / He told us to call him Uncle Loser & used to whisper to us in the back of his trailer the same three ghost stories every summer / The o…

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"The Laughing Cinder Block" by Marlanda Dekine 1:19

8M ago1:19

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They call one bulldagger.I heard them say she spreads women’s legs that's all she does, but I know her. She builds entire worlds where their mouths cannot go,their eyes cannot perceive.What they wonder is who she fucksand how they are going to have more childrenin the world, and there is more to loving a woman. I know because I hold them two inside…

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"The First Time a Man Fucked me Like a Man" by Mary Violet 1:12

8M ago1:12

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I want to be: a good boy, your domesticated coyote. My tongue’s handwriting is the shape of your bodyunshaved and without a shower.They need us to feel disgusted with ourselves, so you committo my appetite unreserved. You become tender only while listening to crust punk and letting my fingers impersonate what I really want. The moon is a cuck watch…

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"Tabitha" by Meghan Malachi 2:24

8M ago2:24

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I’m on the floor again, and that isn’t a metaphor for rock bottom. My new therapist asked me how I did it. How I managed to keep myself safe all these years. For the first time in over a decade, I was honest: I don’t remember. The meds are working, too, I think. Though after they unfurl my patterns, my dreams of precision, all the rot turns to trem…

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"Survivor Audition Video #3" by Isaiah Newman 3:07

8M ago3:07

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We open with a stationary shot of me in my office, a pride flag on the wall behind me. An offscreen bonfire flickers in my eyes, and the savvy viewer will read this as a symbol of both passion and hunger, and before they can ask where it comes from I begin to speak:“I’m a therapist and community organizer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this is…

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"Psychography" by Birch Wiley 1:32

8M ago1:32

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In August it’s hard not to want – everything heavy with it – ginkgo fruitrots on sidewalks, sweat falls down spines,the whole beast city breathes in smog and breathes out low clouds dropping lightning. Confused,a little, reading subway signsfor revelation, it all comes upwonder – which pre-historic lizarddragged itself up into daylight justso you c…

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"Monter Drive" by Colette Love Hilliard 1:04

8M ago1:04

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We learned to love the birds. The backyard bird with her black cap and white cheeks. The flicker so flirty in his polka dot dress and red scarf. The bus-stop-bird who mocked us each morning with a mixtape of songsby someone else. We learned to love the bones. The mismatched shingles on the mansard roof and the pumpkin-colored door. The wrought iron…

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"Lamb's Ear and Lavender" by Tonee Mae Moll 1:16

8M ago1:16

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We failed, you & I, to care for plants we potted at the start of summer—lamb’s ear & lavender, one for each pocket. You told me you loved to stroke the soft fur of the hedgenettle & the smell of your hands upon pinching a switch of lavender & I said I loved our hands together, futuring something into soil.Then we failed in miniature each day, forge…

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"Knowledge" by Sandra Marchetti 1:10

8M ago1:10

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They say it can’t be, but it is, perfect.What they don’t know is that clocks circle the drainlike pasta water,unasked questionswe both knowanswers for. Aftersome time weactually did becomepsychic—I knowanother life flickerssomewhere in yourmind, yet you comehome to guess atThe Price Is Right.It says I haveseen what God doesand the endoscopy,and I c…

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"It's Not About That" by Maureen Martinez 2:13

8M ago2:13

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It’s not about who made the mistake with the wrong address in the GPS getting us to Brooklyn an hour late, is it?It’s about your retirement and our finances,and a 20-something living in our housewithout employment but with a car payment.It’s about the four scrapings the dermatologist didthis summer to determine if I have another basal cell carcinom…

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"i'm overdue for a dream in which my teeth fall out" by nat raum 0:50

8M ago0:50

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that's a euphemism—yes, i have cavities,but it means i am bullet train, boundfor collision. i am jar of marbles brokenacross a concrete floor. i am the riseof the seas. what i lack in control i make upfor in firepower and i should not be givenan excuse to start shooting. i am landslidetornado earthquake wildfire, ready to raisehell, ask questions l…