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Rattlesnake Bites Man in Walmart Garden Center
by Laura Shovan Download: shovan-rattlesnake_bites_man_in_walmart_garden_center.mp3 He thought it was a stick lying on the mulch. His fingers grasped what he thought was wood, but too giving. A moment...
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Wild animals, come to the porch
by Rosemary Starace Download: starace-wild-animals-come-to-the-porch.mp3 to feed me. Oh please me with your animals, give your raccoon her mask, play harp in the dark, in the dark, in the spider...
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Co-Evolution
by Robin Chapman Download: chapman-co-evolution.mp3 “the evolutionary future is pathogens, pets, and guests” —Rob Dunn, 2007 Count among domesticated species the fruit fly, traveling with our pears,...
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Coyote in the Backyard
by Frederick Garber Download: garber-coyote-in-the-backyard.mp3 One time when I was going along I picked up the newspaper. It was on the table in the coffee shop. I looked at the headlines. Something...
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Good Friday Aria
by Gail Eisenhart Download: eisenhart-good-friday-aria2.mp3 A motley group of somber men and women follow a crude log cross between stations staked on neighborhood lawns, singing Were you there when...
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An Ode
by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming Download: ho-an-ode1.mp3 A hot day. A muddy stream weaved by twigs. There you are. Neither a swan nor a goose, your neck still attempts some grace. Too bad you aren’t taken...
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the egrets come to Downey
by Lorine Parks Download: parks-the-egrets-come-to-downey.mp3 necks curved wings slowly flapping the snowy egrets at dusk circle the tallest tree on the block the egrets glide to the branches...
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Chironomus plumosus
by Steve Tomasko Download: tomasko-chironomus.mp3 Twelve years old and in the back yard with a badminton racket. Not batting birdies. Whacking flies. By the hundreds. Per swat. That’s how thick...
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How cats find homes
by Phyllis Klein Download: klein-how-cats-find-homes.mp3 We pounced off the fence to convene our weekly meeting of the Northern California Cats Against Homelessness or NCCAH. We keep up with vacancies...
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F/light
by Dorothee Lang (Click image to view a larger version.) Dorothee Lang is into roads, stories, places, crossings, and all the things they lead and connect to. She lives in Germany, blogs at life as...
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Low Rent Urban Housing
by Margaret S. Mullins Download: mullins-low-rent-urban-housing.mp3 i almost step on two eastern box turtles gold and black shells hiding in clumps of spent violets unharmed inside their hard...
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Aperture
by Karen George Download: george-aperture-reading-by-chandler.mp3 Behind glass I watch the sky glutted with grackles circling above an open field. A cluster breaks from the mass and lands in bare...
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You, Cardinal
by C. E. Chaffin Download: chaffin-you-cardinal.mp3 Crimson startled the snow— powder shook from his feet. Between sunflower seeds his raccoon eyes gave no thought to benefactors so I buried my face in...
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Strix Nebulosa
by Mari-Lou Rowley Download: rowley-strix-nebulosa.mp3 dancing in the updraft, alleluia spectralem gloriosus dominus you will not hear it coming, the whoosh of wingspan could be anything wind, tasers,...
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Parakeet
by Rafael Miguel Montes Download: montes-parakeet.mp3 It’s the shit commute, the hour-long drag from the Cubans I live with to the blacks I work with. The slog of cars—passing dollar stores and...
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The Order of the Forest
by Valerie Loveland Download: loveland-the-order-of-the-forest.mp3 My first clumsy step in the dark alerted broods, dens, clans, nests. Their snarls resembled broken dinner plates, shards from vases....
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Syntagma
by Dawn Nikithser Download: nikithser-syntagma.mp3 In Athens, the old gods still sleep on marble Artemis bares her belly to the sky while Hephaestus slinks near taverna kitchens, seeking the ovens’...
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Nocturne (VI)
from the Bed Bug Diaries by Joanie DiMartino Download: dimartino-nocturne-vi.mp3 Like a good hit man, we know when to lie low, when to disappear for months on end, how to blend invisible in crowds,...
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Recognizable Trappings
by Katherine Glatter Download: glatter-recognizable-trappings.mp3 Flesh and metal collide road kill sets with asphalt The small mammal bones I dug up last fall one cervical vertebra one miniature femur...
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Wildlife graffiti: Hummingbird in Oaxaca, Mexico
by Steve Wing (Click image to view a larger version) Steve Wing lives in Florida and has been a frequent contributor to qarrtsiluni. More about him can be found here. Filed under: Animals in the...
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