We’re all walking around in dreams on a daily basis. Read our poets below. We’re proud of them.

It fails us a good deal, too, and as I’m up past midnight working on these, I wonder whether that’s for our own benefit in the long run. Having access to the complete story of ourselves would come at some great, dear cost to the crucial cushioning of delusion we take for granted as our everyday.

10 more pieces by poets we’ve had the honor of previously hosting. Memory’s weird and flexible and holds time in its tissues, in case anyone’s out there looking for the source of the stuff.

Months lapsed make mild critique more interesting to look at. I offer you 10 more previously published pieces from our archives today, and I hope they’ll bring—at best—the satisfaction of Full Circle.

Glimpsing a name I’ve had correspondence with months ago jogs certain feelings: the integral slant of morning sunlight on the first Friday of Libre’s publication schedule, or how the contributor punctuated, responded in gladness or anxiety.

There’s a space in memory I like referring to as ‘the pigmented remains’. It’s the stuff we half-remember or the impressions that are press-able, full to their diaphanous widths with spongy recall. Revisiting and re-formatting these archival YEAR ONE pieces has been a bloodbath of color.

“The velocity of water molecules determines their form—from mist to sea to glacier. In Scandinavia, people plunge into ice baths after saunas to improve their circulation. In the past, insane asylums used cold water torture as a ‘treatment’ to subdue psychiatric patients.”

Featuring:

CHARLOTTE COLE
ROBERT NERSESIAN
PATTY SOMLO
HAROLD LIMINAL
E.H. JACOBS
MARK ANTONY ROSSI
MARK SHAPIRO
TERRY SANVILLE
R.M. DAVENPORT
LAUREN MCGOVERN

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SANDRA MARILYN
KELLIE BROWN
BRANNON O’BRENNAN
ISIOMA NGOZI
BRETT STUCKEL
GEOFFREY AITKEN
JANET HELLER
WILLIAM MILLER

We’ll keep them always in the newly safe net of the Archives. Even if Libre doesn’t last forever, I’ll continue paying the fees towards keeping the website open. Enjoy these early pieces of prose and poetry below: