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Community News Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025 by Gavin M Roy After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org. What you need to know: * No accounts will be automatically created * No content will be automatically transferred * When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform. Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021 by V. Blake Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks! Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020 by V. Blake Hope you and yours are well. A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019 by V. Blake ..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike. So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard! Older News

Poem of the Day for 02/13/26 the body plays with differing states of geometry by Kelly Jensen 1. the plane is the ground we used to lie down desert sands with bourbon colored strokes against moroccan flavors belligerently echoing pillow-grazed grimaces element platinum simplicities april-wet our heads, darkened hair strewn sideways, effortlessly paved like pinned q's pinafore cocktails dressed beside beach tide umbrellas opening vistas broken by salamander crashes. ii. parallel intersections knots untie themselves when they lie beside the ocean the smell of clover grazes a palate hydraulic conversations slip comprehension trace satellite-strung metallics spooned carbonation sycamores beckon like plumes plump plums razed under elm bark oxidize incessantly iii. proof silt slips like cars wet pavement collides / rocky rubber slumbering azaleas sketch a road fine marshes gorged in hiccupped gold & sterile smell of hickory a milky air drains no epiphany 03/31/2009 Visit Kelly Jensen's Library the body plays with differing states of geometry Copyright © 2026

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