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Notes from an Epicenter

By | 2020-03-31T11:26:58-07:00 April 2nd, 2020|Categories: Issue 107: 02 April 2020|Tags: , , , |

By John Linstrom                 Sixteen Oaks Grove, Queens, NY   Sixteen oaks in two rows planted down an island in the street: school is closed, kids transplanted, benches here are empty, clean and neat. Auto shops still rollicking with laughter, a boy walks by, dribbles his ball alone. A bird keeps trilling, and will after; [...]

On the President’s Announcement of Our Hashtag

By | 2020-11-06T16:15:03-08:00 September 19th, 2019|Categories: Issue 95: 19 September 2019|Tags: , , , , |

By John Linstrom   The President announced we need to keep some carbon in the ground; he sounded sure, his raised and lowered index finger maybe mimicking an oil rig I’ve seen on my computer screen. I caught his talk distilled at first, a single image meme, hashtagged to my cell phone’s glowing face, the floating [...]