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The Spirit of Detroit

I.The sun shines on the Thinker, in the morning, outside the marblemuseum, the Detroit Institute of

By Dan Hawkins / June 4, 2025

Here is a tree,an old green-shadowedpost oak trunking out at angleshe ponderedfor years.Here is the anchorite

By Anna Classon / June 3, 2025

“If you want to live, come with me,” says Damon. I hesitate and he looks at

I looked into your eyes and See a rare sight that Breaks me. Pure glass wings

I think I have to be good, good at everything, good at being bad Check the

There’s a man that I see everyday,who indeed casts shadows upon the ground.He carefully chooses the

Mother, born in Upstate New York, sang Edith Piaf’s La Vie en Rose. Giacometti’s sculptures, like

One toad watches from a scarred wooden table in a rundown kitchen—an only daughter with a