Nonfiction
This is Thin Air Online’s Archive of pieces that are classified as nonfiction. We accept work from those associated with Flagstaff and those from far off.
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Night Noise by Emma Moser
Night Noise by Emma Moser The pattern of your breathing changes, and that is how I know we both heard it, that we are both stirring from a different darkness than the one which embraced us, hours ago, as we embraced, fading into sleep, and that the velvet of conversing breaths has been violated by something…
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BIRD BY DESERT-LIGHT by Chelsea Biondolillo
BY CHELSEA BIONDOLILLO …It can’t store enough fuel to last the night and hoist it from its well of dreams to first light trembling on wet fuchsia, nor break the hard promise life always keeps. A lot of hummingbirds die in their sleep. —Diane Ackerman, Dark Night of the Hummingbird Creeping…
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PRESENCE by Bill Vernon
BY BILL VERNON I’m not even fishing, just standing on the bank of the Little Miami River, and the flowing seems to pour through me. It’s as if the future lies downstream and all I have to do is look there to see it. My eyes are like spools from which the lines of…
