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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 12

Day 12: “Child’s Play” by Angie Macri in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social. LOVE LOVE LOVE the structure of this poem! www.emptyhousepress.com/issue-fourte...

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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 10

"[...] engineering / meets art in the cross of cap and girt, perfect interval / of line and space." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social) in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 9

"In the nettled fields of my mother’s memory, she saw them, / tawny stalkers slipping through the long grass, calling / shy lovers in the late glow of summer nights." — Maggie Doyle in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 7

"It was an old part of the boneyard, people with eighteenth and nineteenth-century surnames: Barnabus, Mutterer, Winthrop, Cornelius." — Regina Rae Weiss (@reginagroks.bsky.social) in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 6

"The bothy has two windows, thick walls, a white / my mother would deem spotless, at a glimpse." — Anne Ryland in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 5

"I remember breaking the dry pods with you, / seeds spilling into my palm / like small promises for spring." — Hanna Han in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 4

"We start with berries at / their dacha, red fruit sweet, staining my shirt; / the kettle boiling on open fire, black rye bread, / my wooden toys." — Polina Kouzminova in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Regina Rae Weiss @reginagroks.bsky.social · Jul 3

Delighted to see my short story Communion in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social‬ with works that “trace how #time gathers quietly in stairwells & #gardens, pastures and cemeteries. . . measured not only in hours & years, but also by glances, absences, & the enduring weight of #memory.” shorturl.at/LExnq

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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 3

"The tall grass hides us, she and I. We lie on bath towels in our bikinis because we can’t go to the beach." — Rachel St. Ours in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 2

"The soot chute emptied from the fireplace hatch, / from the room of living, down to a door, / thick, cast-iron [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 1

Dear Housemates: Submissions are currently closed as we take an extended hiatus. Thank you for your support, your stories, and your patience. We'll return when it's time to open the door again. Until then—thank you, truly 🏠✨

A black and white drawing of a house with windows shuttered. Text above: Empty House Press is on an extended hiatus. Text below: The doors are closed but not locked. We'll be back.

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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 1

"When a snell wind birls in from the north / our kettle spits white sparks on the hob / and the hearth booms [...]" — Pippa Little, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · Jun 30

Happy to have my poem "Abandoned Railroad Trestle Bridge, Oregon" up at Empty House Press today.

Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Less abandoned than re-imagined. / Splay of moss and green lichen, / leafy and curving, ornaments the posts / and sway braces." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 30

"Sixty years tore like child’s play / cracking the sky. Black on its crown, / its roots held the ground." — Angie Macri, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Less abandoned than re-imagined. / Splay of moss and green lichen, / leafy and curving, ornaments the posts / and sway braces." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"On wing-swept nights in the low meadow, I hear them, / corncrake spirits rasping, haunting pastures lost [...]" — Maggie Doyle, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Once, as a young woman half asleep in a friend’s mountain yard tracing the stars, she’d been approached by a skunk in the dark, watched in stillness as it floated across the grass..." — Regina Rae Weiss (@reginagroks.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"She trusts skirts, shorts, jumpers, pyjamas to a thrawn sun: / her laundering-love, no, her love-laundering, / the ceremony of releasing them to billow and run and fly." — Anne Ryland, EHP Issue Fourteen,
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"In the kitchen once, / you taught me to knead dough, / pressing it firm yet gentle. / 'Patience, you said, / 'Patience is the secret.'" — Hanna Han, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Potato fields stretch for miles, indented with footprints; / fire crackles in the distance, little homes dispersed / over the valley." — Polina Kouzminova, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Later still, when I hear her latch open and the sound of her legs shifting over the ledge, I feel betrayed. 'Where are you going?' I ask. 'Out,' says her cat voice." — Rachel St. Ours, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"We knew better / than to harrow farther back into the cold / where the soot grew slimy, icier and wetter, / not thinking how it would be to grow old / in that deep [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"this house rocks like a ship, / creaks and calls, and the corbies caw, lost souls / crying down the chimney [...]" — Pippa Little, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

"To get a reckoning of time, / I counted the rings of the oak / after it was cut in sections / like a spine." — Angie Macri, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Empty House Press @emptyhousepress.bsky.social · Jun 29

✨ISSUE FOURTEEN IS HERE!✨
FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & @reginagroks.bsky.social
POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & @magpiedays.bsky.social
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