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Ever had signals crossed with an affectionate colleague? Thought you were just friends? Ended up in some horror movie set at sunset by accident or ignorance? Thanks to the Berlin-based “The Wild Word” lit mag for publishing my first flash fiction: https://thewildword.com/fiction-karina-lutz/
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I. Standing, feet naked to the earth. Walking, the sensation of flow from heel along the outer edge of sole to outer ball, inner ball, the rhythm of it. Like the sleek shifting weight of a running cougar: the ripple and the grace in the movement. Touching ground, bending knee, taking weight, pushing off, finding…
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After a day of trailing my mother from house to house or along the beach gathering signatures on petitions, our table conversation would start something like this: What if America had not fought in World War II? How else can you stop an aggressor like Hitler but with war? Isn’t peace without justice just another…
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One fun thing about publishing on the internet, is sometimes a poem gets accepted for publication and you forget about it for nine months before looking it up. Here’s one, “Pandemic,” about this corona, this crown of the baby’s head near birth, the light that gets around the eclipse, this glimpse of making way for…
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Wow. Never been coached on writing a blog post before. Repeating your search terms is apparently a thing. If I were editing this piece, I’d take all that repetition out. So old school. Anyway, it was fun to write.
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Heart of Flesh Literary Journal published my (quite Buddhist) riff off TS Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday;” a twist on the binding of Issac; and a parallel between of Noah’s sea level rise and modern scientists’ prophesies, in poems called, respectively, “Ash Wednesday;” “Anticipating the Akedah Moment;” and “What a Fragile Earth it is without a God./What…
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The Youth Guest Editorial Board of Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects invites you to submit for the upcoming Aug/Sep 2020 issue crafted by young people. We welcome submissions of proposals or final content that aligns with this issue’s theme, which orients around the Seven Generations Exercise of the Work That Reconnects.…
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Prelminary Visions is available directly from me or certain bookstores. From the cover: “In the deep woods, hikers say, if you feel you are being watched by an animal, you probably are. Preliminary Visions creates moments of being, moments of relation, moments of meaning-making—frequently with that sense of being observed by a silent witness and…
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Okay, so technically, #COVID19 not the first global pandemic, but maybe the first of this magnitude. Maybe there will be more that make the 1918 flu look well contained. So we’ll look back at this as the first. Sobering thought in a time of many sobering thoughts. But here’s a spin: collapsing economic systems offer…