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Nori night
listener, our circumflex undercuts
some honed norm
like when I was sleeping and you woke me up
a phosphorescent tree
blazing hearths among the leaves.
You are playing with fire.
Ain’t that the cold truth — no get out of jail free in this life.

Text by Jordan Scott. Prompt: 1904 – A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.

Text by Christof Migone. Prompts: texts by Jordan and Kathryn plus the prompts they chose.

Text by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Prompt: 1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.

Todays Calls is part of the Phone Works series by Christof Migone. Website design by Endless Commons. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council.