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the blueshift journal
blueshift / ˈblo͞oˌSHift / noun
the displacement of the spectrum to shorter wavelengths in the light coming from distant celestial objects moving toward the observer.
IN THE PINES
RYAN BLACK
I always knew the house was on fire. It was one of the first things I knew.
Alice Notley
Shiver for me now—the road through
the park, the scum kettle pond,
the planned pine grove past Victory
Field, and the block where she
burned last night. March, a cracked
cellar door, don’t you lie to me.
Cuffed wrists. Duct tape. I am
a luckless thing. A man’s
rended heart. I burned like brush
fire in the pines. Burned
like the front porch.
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