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A.R. Zdeb

@zdebb

articles: 27
total claps: 51
top claps: 31
avg read: 0.9 min
active: 2025-09-19 → 2026-07-06

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#poetry ·13 #poem ·8 #triptych ·3 #canal ·2 #wisconsin ·2 #heron ·1 #sunflower ·1 #harvest ·1 #illinois ·1 #hennepin ·1

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find me

find me walking in evening pools silent chain around your neck. sweetheart of infected winds, whispered prayer on red edged pages…

Jan 31, 2026 · 1 min read · 31 claps #poetry #faith #lose

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about storms

the thing about storms is we’re never sure how long they are supposed to last.

Jan 14, 2026 · 1 min read · 11 claps #poetry #storms #children

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soot of a fire

the burden for the hunter is to carry his gun, his sack and his bible. to sling them like a soldier across his back leaving his arms free…

May 20, 2026 · 1 min read · 5 claps

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floating upon an abandoned canal

we float upon abandon canal, listening for the water slap of the occasional carp.

Oct 06, 2025 · 1 min read · 3 claps #poem #canal #canoe

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abraham and sarah

“…..and god brought forth abraham, and said unto him; look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them so shall…

Mar 19, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 claps #poetry #bible-story #abraham

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the fool

a small gravel road i remember, goes back into the hills stark under a southwestern sun, watery visions of deep thirst and brown…

Sep 19, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #poem #growing-old #youthfulness

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three notes from casper’s bluff

a triptych

Oct 13, 2025 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poem #triptych

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walking barefoot through empty streets

once i was wounded in love walking. a stone begging for life. once when i was filthy by the river, and lived in a small room where my…

May 14, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poetry #divorce #truth

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far from this land above us every day

far from this land above us everyday solemn and yearning life explodes. where light is thick and nothing can be said because words fail to…

Apr 23, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps

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the flood

the flood that rose that night as we slept carried away my chair and my books and you vaulted the wall,

Jul 06, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poetry #wisconsin #floods

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sounds among the hills

sounds among the hills smells of mud and soaked wood. a slight wind. the bird drops, slaps the water fights to hold the fish and regains…

Apr 23, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #rivers #poetry #wisconsin

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a lark in the morning

i walked the fields of gettysburg where they broke against an old morning. cruel was the payment in flesh just as it always is.

Jun 08, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poetry #the-lark #wa

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i came to the island to make photographs

the island lies to the side of the main channel fifty feet from the western bank. prairie grasses still live there, never been lost to the…

Apr 25, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps

i came to the island to make photographs

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three unrelated short poems

one

Jan 03, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poetry #triptych #sound

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three more unrelated poems

they left a light on fifty watt sun on the porch hundred small flys buzz

Jan 07, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poem #triptych

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crucifix gestures

where hills are flat, where rivers in perfect health freed of sediment, mingle with the groom, when the full circle of moon takes the…

Jan 17, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poetry #religon #irony

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tumbles down the hillside

a deer dislodges a small rock that tumbles down the hillside off a limestone bluff and falls into the creek, a shallow pool. the deer…

Mar 11, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poem #fish #hunt

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i’ll fix the lock

tomorrow i’ll fix the lock on the door, the ripped screen and leaking pipe replace the rotted floor. tomorrow with wrench in hand and…

Apr 18, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poetry #locks #work

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waves on endless shores

small cool clearings a world round as a bowl, in language unformed you are all i need.

Apr 18, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps

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a woman cries (la llorona)

it began with music. soft guitar, hushed dangerous strum of a crying woman.

Jan 08, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poem #legend #myths

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hennepin

where the diggers rested smoking rolled cigarettes waiting to be roused, spade back in the ground bit by aching bit, inch to miles a hole…

Jan 27, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poetry #illinois #hennepin

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the temple is empty

the temple is empty, no one remains in prayer. eyes turn in curious search. eyes wander by glancing at its fatal form the bloody ball, the…

Apr 21, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps

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morning comes older

morning comes older and earlier a fresh statistic. she is the robe i put on when sudden sounds shake my sleep, to check window and lock.

Oct 15, 2025 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poem #morning #awaken

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bright, clear and foolish

play upon golden strings. lift your words up until they ring like bells in our ears.

Apr 27, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps

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two harvests

green heron on half submerged tree waiting for red eared fish, pushes his neck long, slowly until he strikes and has his fish.

Jan 08, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #poem #heron #sunflower