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Three poems by P R Kargaard

P R Kargaard

Smooth / Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickkennedy/3184235988/ electronavalanche

False Bay, San Juan Island In the autumn morning, the high thirds of the trees I know have vanished. Obscured by a sleepy fog. It is a way of being in pearl which seeps like a surface … [Read more...]

Teeth of the Sea

Maggie Shannon

Chum Bucket, 2013 (detail) / photo by Maggie Shannon

Artist's Statement: Maggie Shannon grew up in Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island best known as a summer beach colony. Teeth of the Sea explores Islanders’ ambivalent relationship with the sea … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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