Archive - Words All The Way Down

call and response.

May 5

April 2025

The Street You Grew Up On

Imagine a street, but not the one you grew up on.

Apr 4

February 2025

Not With a Bang

Sing me the story where everyone dies and the author is honest about us. She writes our confusions large our trembling small. We did not understand were…

Feb 13

January 2025

The rabbit - the bat - the thread between my lips - prayers to patron saints of hearth and home flesh and bone whistled up from these floorboards and…

Jan 16

December 2024

Behind the Words: December 2024

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Dec 18, 2024

November 2024

Nothing is Forever

You said I was like the coyote, standing in the clouds, a trickster god as long as he doesn’t look down. But you know how it goes.

Nov 30, 2024

October 2024

it’s sparrow season and our scripture is written in all the flowers that have fallen giving way to seedful pockets and the colorful dead withering…

Oct 26, 2024

things that didn't happen

the list was made the plants were watered the dish was placed in the sink the walk was taken the window was opened wide like a smile for sun-warmed air…

Oct 12, 2024

August 2024

it is goldenrod season and our cosmology is written in a wild carrot flower nebula, mullein comets, constellations of coreopsis. what laws of light and…

Aug 18, 2024

This summer, Holly Lynn Walrath offered a course called, “A Nature Poet’s Field Guide.” I jumped on it, of course, and spent a month doing one of my…

Aug 10, 2024

July 2024

Would you summon the ghost of me please?

Jul 29, 2024

a bad season for snakes

You find the first by the mailbox thick and still like rope, no sign of foul play, and you ask her what happened- She says: it was a good day to die in…

Jul 21, 2024

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