Phoenix Butterfly I always felt invisible, with no color or spark. What did I have to offer? What was there to see in me? Unable to see my colors in the dark. Then I learned to see, thru the love of me; All the things that I could be. Embracing my colors, aiming for the […]
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“The second I step up onto the tundra bench I realize my mistake. I forgot to shout, ‘Hey bear!’ like I normally do when beaching the raft, to avoid nasty surprises. Right now, this slip of attention could get me killed. Not 20 yards away, a grizzly stands up in the grass, fixing me in
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“. . . In the years to come I saw the river frozen featureless white, saw it running water over the ice in a January thaw; saw it frozen to glass under a February moon when we skated two or three miles straight line before turning around to let a cold breeze blow us home;
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“Decades after the events of November 1973, I still struggled with understanding, accepting, moving on… Although I was seventeen when my father hired Jones to pour acid on Mom and my stepfather Dale, I know that by then a lot of damage had been done… Scenes gradually started to grow in my head-vignettes of smells
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An invited essay in applied anthropology, “Alan Boraas and Kahtnuht’ana Qenagu: Preserving and Renewing an Alaska Native Language” was published May 22, 2022 by Kerry D. Feldman and Phyllis A. Fast in Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, ed. by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney. Excerpt: “The project (a Dena’ina language self-learning
Warflower: A True Story of Family, Service and Life in Alaska by Robert Stark “On my mother’s side of the family, every male served in the military. On my father’s side of the family, every male served prison time. My brother went to prison and I joined the army, we pride ourselves on family traditions.
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What Does a Fetal Heartbeat Sound Like? —a found poem Like feet running on wet sand. Like horses galloping horses like a hummingbird a hundred hummingbirds in a snowstorm. Like a country music station picked up like being underwater and fish listening to our kicking like an off-balance washing machine like a
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First Infraction Saturated air, the pass immersed In fog. We still can’t fly, although the rain This day has ceased its drumming. A burst Of sun emblazons one wing of our plane That sits on rocky beach, tied down, fueled Up. What a lovely color: its body a warm And deep maroon, with accents black.
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The Opposite Of Trust: A Cold War Novel Of Passion And Betrayal by Rodger Carlyle Every night Ellen would sit on the rickety picnic table next to Wolf Lake, letting the aurora temporarily fill some empty spot. Some nights she could imagine her body converted to electrons dancing across the sky with the aurora taking
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Editor’s Note: Thank you to Lisa Alexia for this review of Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth. Bathsheba will be teaching a nonfiction workshop for 49 Writers during her time in Anchorage. You can sign up on our web site. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, by Bathsheba Demuth (W.W. Norton & Co,
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