HIVE and STEEM — Freedom and Necessity .writing and images by @d-pend Introduction I recently completed Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's excellent translation of Tolstoy's War and Peace, a hefty

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This is a cross post of @tezmel/broken-heartedness-poetry by @cliffagreen.A new favorite poet of mine.

The way my Aunt Katie told this, the June night was cold enough that even the gnats took cover, hiding in the crevices of the white barn instead of swarming beneath the farm's single night-light. She launched