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There's a Stuffed Hedgehog Holding a Red Mushroom
A meditation on containers
Dec 3 • 
Rebecca D. Martin

November 2025

Leaning Incandescent
The annual birthday reading of Sylvia Plath's "Black Rook in Rainy Weather" plus "Sorrow Is Not My Name" by Ross Gay
Nov 25 • 
Rebecca D. Martin

October 2025

But with Dinosaur Costumes
a dispatch from vertigo land
Oct 31 • 
Rebecca D. Martin
Asking Julian of Norwich
dispatches from the floor behind my bed
Oct 23 • 
Rebecca D. Martin
How to Lose Your Week
hashtag Scarlet Letter
Oct 11 • 
Rebecca D. Martin

September 2025

I Tell Her
a meditation while reading poetry in the foyer of Hobby Lobby
Sep 28 • 
Rebecca D. Martin
Now My Life Will Quiet and Expand
a dispatch from the present season
Sep 15 • 
Rebecca D. Martin

August 2025

Little No Horse, Three Ways
Tell me what you really think
Aug 12 • 
Rebecca D. Martin

July 2025

Imagine an Animal Shelter
or a field with grass and a bench
Jul 30 • 
Rebecca D. Martin
pas·teur·i·za·tion
A Covid-era meditation on safe consumption
Jul 15 • 
Rebecca D. Martin
At the Bakery
It's a story about shame
Jul 2 • 
Rebecca D. Martin

June 2025

A Midsummer Night's Speech
In the middle of my life, I have learned to translate myself better.
Jun 18 • 
Rebecca D. Martin
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