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What it knows What it knows

Today's poem features a photo taken Hari Viswanathan, my high school classmate from Los Alamos. allisoncobb.substack.com/p/what-it-kn...

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The United States, February 15, 2026

Cut tulip. Alive. Flared wide.

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February 1, 2026 February 1, 2026

Today's poem, on winter ICE in Portland
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stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop ...

sick

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Stop the dark Stop the dark Renee Nicole Macklin Good, murdered January 7, 2026 This man his hand going for gun what dark fanged forth— called to life out of throats enclosed in their blood ties of power— this dark...

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Back to light A poem for the darkest days of winter

Today's poem for dark winter days

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Poem for today

Wish

A thousand things times
naught. I want
that. An empty.
The glint
from a fork
eclipsed
in the wet
of a mouth. The ash
flake
having once. I ask
the trace
of a sea
gone extinct. Subtract.
The path
of a fin
from that past. A breath
next to last.
Nothing.
Less.

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Grief [Mother's Day]

Today's poem
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Dear April 28, 2025

Today's poem: Dear

I like how the picture just gets the deer legs!

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Easter Eve April 23, 2025

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Birthed Birthed

Today's poem about an incident that happened early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Then I know Then I know

Today's poem is about water. open.substack.com/pub/allisonc...

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Public Comment for the Draft Los Alamos National Laboratory Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (Draft LANL SWEIS) The Draft LANL SWEIS is currently open for public comment until April 10th! Please fill out your information to the right to submit a comment! A template is provided for your convenience. Located in ...

Here's an action you can quickly sign onto, and it matters. Los Alamos National Laboratory has started producing plutonium cores for nuclear weapons for the first time since the Cold War. Their proposal for expanding fails to meet basic legal requirements. actionnetwork.org/letters/publ...

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The Trump administration is deleting resources and denying the reality that toxic air pollution makes some communities sicker than others.

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Red handed Red handed

Poem for today: Red handed
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Reinstate Black History Month, Pride Month, and other cultural events! Google’s quiet removal of cultural events from their calendars last year is part of a broader trend of tech companies and businesses catering to far-right and extreme groups by rolling back inclusivit...

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To Death After the State of the Union

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Calling the spirit back Joy Harjo's words

I've been feeling sustained by Joy Harjo's words

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Unspeak After Ukraine's President Zelensky meets the attack dog of the U.S.

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Protest Poems counter lies

Poems counter lies

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It is a time for poems. For unsettling every word.

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