Here and Now (2025)

		[{"id":2428,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/daughter-by-samantha-malay\/","name":"daughter-by-samantha-malay","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Daughter' by Samantha Malay","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 22:44:13","modifiedDate":"2025-08-07 10:41:08","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-08-07 10:41:08","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":41},"status":"publish","excerpt":"In a cardboard box\nwith paperback books\nwallet-size school photos\na light brown corduroy skirt\nLotus Blossom perfume vial\ndry leaves\nand horse chestnuts\n\nbetween church basement coffee cups\nand other crossroads promises\n\nI found my rollerskates"},{"id":2444,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/only-child-war-song-by-alison-tan\/","name":"only-child-war-song-by-alison-tan","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Only Child War Song' by Alison Clara Tan","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:05:25","modifiedDate":"2025-08-02 10:26:29","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-08-02 10:26:29","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":56},"status":"publish","excerpt":"When my fianc\u00e9 stomps up the aisle because I forget again\nto make tea for more than one, I shout: I\u2019m so grateful!\n\u00a0\nI\u2019ll have it all: a sockeyed salmon, the last piece of cake,\nthe property deed to the house where I once grew wings\n\u00a0\nand flew down the stairs when I was five. Pop quiz:\nwas that true? Wrong again, please proceed to Floor Seven\n\u00a0"},{"id":2420,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/steelhead-at-devils-gulch-by-heather-bourbeau\/","name":"steelhead-at-devils-gulch-by-heather-bourbeau","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Steelhead at Devil's Gulch' by Heather Bourbeau","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:07:06","modifiedDate":"2025-07-29 23:07:06","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:07:06","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":4},"status":"publish","excerpt":"I am late for the spawn.\nThe redd is gone, the creek still fragile.\n\u00a0\nInsects dart around my head\nlike drones over protests.\n\u00a0\nAll I was raised to believe we would defend\nteeters.\n\u00a0\nMiner\u2019s lettuce, maidenhair,\nmargined white butterfly, Fernald\u2019s iris."},{"id":2415,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/enso-carousel-by-partridge-boswell\/","name":"enso-carousel-by-partridge-boswell","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Ens\u014d Carousel' by Partridge Boswell","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:06:53","modifiedDate":"2025-07-29 23:06:53","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:06:53","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":22},"status":"publish","excerpt":"One whirl, all music and bright color, wild horses and laughter\nrutting a black circle, imperfect as \u03c0 to a thousand reams of paper.\n\u00a0\nOver \/ under alternate faster until they blur into one current\nand you ride the dun mare through a burning ring of gold.\n\u00a0\nIn this life the most you can hope for is one or two friends\nwho won\u2019t mind if you love them. One or two durable"},{"id":2417,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/what-i-learned-from-ken-burns-baseball-by-madison-lazenby\/","name":"what-i-learned-from-ken-burns-baseball-by-madison-lazenby","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'What I learned from Ken Burns' Baseball' by Madison Lazenby","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:06:07","modifiedDate":"2025-07-29 23:06:19","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:06:19","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":45},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The history of baseball is also\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the history of the Paris Review\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is also learning\n\u00a0\nto appreciate Jim Croce \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 despite my father\u2019s distaste\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 because you love him\n\u00a0\n& sure\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he has a great mustache \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is also sitting on peanut shells\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 & telling\n\u00a0\nyour neighbor\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 this is going to be the year \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 they bring it home \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is also no one"},{"id":2442,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/plums-by-caroline-smith\/","name":"plums-by-caroline-smith","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Plums' by Caroline Smith","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:02:45","modifiedDate":"2025-07-29 23:02:48","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:02:48","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":22},"status":"publish","excerpt":"When he tells me one day\n\u00a0\n\u2018I feel happy\u2019\n\u00a0\nmy heart shifts the heavy branch\nbroken off last year, overladen with fruit\nthat has slumped under cowls of moss\nand wet leaves."},{"id":2440,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/bycatch-by-caroline-smith\/","name":"bycatch-by-caroline-smith","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Bycatch' by Caroline Smith","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:00:55","modifiedDate":"2025-07-29 23:00:59","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-07-29 23:00:59","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":31},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Indistinguishable, like dying fish,\nold men lie there, long faces,\nsilver heads and black triangular mouths.\nThey are the bycatch of a trawler\nthat has dragged its weighted nets\nand steel rollers through their lives,\ntorn up fragile habitats\nand the symbiosis"},{"id":2438,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/if-you-are-there-when-the-sky-is-on-fire-by-amelia-averis\/","name":"if-you-are-there-when-the-sky-is-on-fire-by-amelia-averis","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'If you are there when the sky is on fire' by Amelia Averis","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 22:57:44","modifiedDate":"2025-07-29 22:57:47","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-07-29 22:57:47","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":0},"status":"publish","excerpt":"I have been below the dark clouds,\u00a0\nas they split like ore\nand mixed all the world\u2019s paint\nwith ocre, wondering\n\u00a0\nWhat is that green colour\nthat is orange at its core\n\u00a0\nIn such a way that\nit drips deep\nlike velvet?\n\u00a0\nWhat is si"},{"id":2430,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/if-the-world-ends-text-me-by-sean-cho-a\/","name":"if-the-world-ends-text-me-by-sean-cho-a","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'If the World Ends, Text Me' by Sean Cho A","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 22:47:41","modifiedDate":"2025-07-29 22:54:02","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-07-29 22:54:02","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a 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22:53:14","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":40},"status":"publish","excerpt":"We have memorized the train schedule not because we take the train\nbut because it soothes something. you say, this is our favorite time\nof day\nthe between. the almost. the golden pre-dinner stillness.\na pigeon lands on the crosswalk sign,\nrefusing to be told when to go. our leftovers cool on the c"},{"id":2434,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/somewhere-else-it-is-snowing-by-sean-cho-a\/","name":"somewhere-else-it-is-snowing-by-sean-cho-a","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Somewhere Else, It Is Snowing' by Sean Cho A","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-07-29 22:52:35","modifiedDate":"2025-07-29 22:52:39","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-07-29 22:52:39","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/here-and-now-2025\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Here and Now 2025<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":34},"status":"publish","excerpt":"here we forget to water the plants.\nso they wilt like the list of things we swore\nwe\u2019d do once we had time.\n\nyou ask, do you think we\u2019ll ever be rich\nand i say probably not, but we\u2019re wealthy\nin expired coupons and shared playlists.\nwe laugh, because the sentence isn\u2019t beautiful\nbut the moment is."}]