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  • Poetry

    By Rae

    iPhone

    You have plastered my eyelids open 

    Non contact tonometry

    Force fed with gavage until I no longer awake 

    at the smell of burning grease.

     

    Burrowed into retinas like a small flaming needle,

  • Wait

    It's summertime in Montana, and because we ranch, because animals and plants and the weather are on their own time, I sit around and wait a lot.

  • Out of Cryo

    The door hums as it opens

    I oiled it so it wouldn't creak on my entrance

    no automated voice announces me

    or where I am

    or when

    I built this ship of spare parts I collected

    from people I knew

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Challenges

  • Writing

    Deadline

    Forgotten

    Write from the perspective of a forgotten toy that was once the center of a young child's life.

  • Visual Art

    Deadline

    Pastoral

    Paint a pastoral scene, either from a photo or en plein air, in watercolor or another medium of your choice. 

  • Writing

    Deadline

    Seneca

    Stoic philosopher Seneca's prescription for happiness was to enjoy the present without regrets for the past and fears about the future. Write about the experience of appreciating the moment.

 

  • Writing

    The Declaration of Independence

    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." July 4, 1776

  • Visual Art

    Democracy & Ethics – Visual Art

    Using the medium of your choice, interpret the concept of democracy. Consider President Abraham Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, for the people." You can take a realistic photograph or create an imaginative illustration. 

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