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"When he returned to the surface, his ears popped, and he swore he could hear the sky."

A heartbreaking story about the assemblage of relationships we have with nature and each other, Shane Castle's "Ponderosa" is not to be missed. Check it out below!

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www.thecommononline.org Ponderosa SHANE CASTLE He recognized it for an absence—no, the absence of silence—a something. He would look back years later and remember it as a sub-rosa gnawing that seemed to come from everywhere and...
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"It was beetles, pine-bark beetles—thousands, maybe millions, gnawing their way through the brittle red bark of his trees. No, he said as if to someone."

In Shane Castle's "Ponderosa," the trees are everything — and they're in danger. Read below!

thecommononline.org/ponderosa/
www.thecommononline.org Ponderosa SHANE CASTLE He recognized it for an absence—no, the absence of silence—a something. He would look back years later and remember it as a sub-rosa gnawing that seemed to come from everywhere and...
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Issue 28 poem "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Matthew Tuckner (@tuckner_matthew) contrasts a romantic memory with the stark, industrial imagery of a superfund site.

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www.thecommononline.org The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire MATTHEW TUCKNER In my favorite picture of you, the hair blown across / your face, obscuring your face, it’s easy to make out, / deep in the distance, the hangers of the air force base / classified as...
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Zoraida Burgos’s latest poems in Issue 28 span the ecology of relationships and language. Translated by Peter Bush, these pieces are live on The Common.

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www.thecommononline.org Zoraida Burgos: Poems By ZORAIDA BURGOS Wearily, but firmly, we twisted / our feeble trunks / around a stump / alone but not sad amid other trees, / entangled roots / clinging till the last / to our rough stony ground.