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The Fiction of Light
The rooster’s body requires the fiction of light.
Sep 24
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Shannon Ratliff
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jesus didn’t mean for this to come out during drinks with christ
coins in fish guts, teeth in bread, always a crowd and never a reason.
Sep 17
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Shannon Ratliff
2
Elephant Chain
Off the bat this would read better if
Sep 10
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Shannon Ratliff
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Even By Just Trying
My drool crusted around the edges. The collapse. The quiet in the gape.
Sep 4
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Shannon Ratliff
4
August 2025
Glass Cities on My Skin
Every day I wake into someone else, stitched from scraps I don’t remember choosing.
Aug 27
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Shannon Ratliff
3
Aquariums That Cloud
Weather no longer weather, clouds rehearsed, heat rehearsed, the boardroom rehearsed.
Aug 20
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Shannon Ratliff
2
August 2019
Summer summer summer. It hummed on the tongue slower in the heat.
Aug 13
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Shannon Ratliff
5
The Man on the Moon
Sympathy is easy, Armstrong. But you needed empathy, and that, the public decided, was too much to give.
Aug 6
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Shannon Ratliff
5
July 2025
All That Air Between Us
When I moved to Colorado for love, Joe Walsh was always on the radio.
Jul 30
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Shannon Ratliff
6
All the Jobs I Had Before One with Health Insurance
Pizza slinger at Roma Pizzeria in Portland, Maine (Open ‘til 3 a.m. I was 19, all my friends were 21+.)
Jul 23
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Shannon Ratliff
8
The Voice in the Clearing
Some mornings I want to slip the voice out like a loose tooth and bury it in the backyard.
Jul 16
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Shannon Ratliff
5
Apsides
This is the full moon of my life. I’ve lit a torch to meet it.
Jul 9
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Shannon Ratliff
3
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