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Chateau de Valicourt, Montmorancy, France / copyright Justice Putnam

“Do you smell that?” she asked as we drove through Reims, past the National Front headquarters, on the way to La Tranche sur Mer.

“I don’t know,” I said flatly, “what’s wrong?”

“It smells like…” she sniffed with a haughty, Parisian disdain, “it smells like fascism.”

I knew then that I was in love with her. I really knew.

– Judge Putnam

“My little French honeymoon”

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Ask: Who is your audience? What are you here for?

Answer: Tribal alliances, sincere beliefs, impassioned speech, indiscriminate surrender, enduring civility and a kiss; to comfort the sad and the mad; the Ones wandering the international section of the American supermarket at night; or wander the run-down streets looking for an angry malaprop to sink their teeth into; those who seek without seeking and learn as much as they learn; those who embrace and kiss and embrace again; those who sing the song of the city and the ballads of the forest; those who sing the rhythm of the sea and hum the melody of the desert; those who sing the prayer of Her name and Her name is the World. Yes, those are the Ones. –JP

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Man, Girl and Broken Window - copyright Justice Putnam — Man, girl and broken window, Klamath Falls, Oregon – copyright Justice Putnam

Give me a church

Israel “Izzy Maq Styles” Putnam October 2, 1977 – December 30, 18

made entirely of salt.

Make the walls sizzle

and smoke when

I return to the coast.

I ask for mercy

of a new freckle

on my cheek, the elevator

of blue and my mother’s

soapy skin to greet me.

Hide me in a room

without windows.

Don’t ever let me see it

the dolphins jump

in commas

for this water prayer

stand up like a host

of sky lanterns

the inky black evening.

Let them hang

in the air until

they disappear at the edge

of the constellations —

the heroes and animals

too busy and bright to notice.

— Aimee Nezhukumatathil

“Zeekerk”

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Rest in peace Aaron Swartz

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Detroit, Michigan, NN14 / Copyright Judge Putnam — Detroit, Michigan, NN14 / copyright Judge Putnam

Who loves you, baby?

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