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Frogs Riding on Squirrels
Listen now (3 mins) | from Death By Asphyxiation
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Amy Isikoff Newell
January 2023
December 2022
2022, rapt
Listen now (3 mins) | 2022, rapt Most nights the sunset held me, moving from southwest to northwest and back again: through my windows, from the roof…
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Amy Isikoff Newell
timeline
Listen now (9 mins) | timeline when you were 13 you lived on a boat for a month. the sea was deep and then shallow. the fishes flashed silver in the…
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Amy Isikoff Newell
Do Not Praise That Man To Me
Listen now (5 mins) | Do not praise that man to me Do not praise that man to me. Tell me Never again that there are things to admire about him, even…
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Amy Isikoff Newell
Urban Ecology
Listen now (1 min) | Urban Ecology On the way to buy burritos I made everyone stop so I could pick some bladder campions and put them in my hair. There…
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Amy Isikoff Newell
November 2022
October 2022
Rise, Fall
Listen now (1 min) | Rise, Fall It came like a revelation. I saw our love building up over that year of blazes and I blazoned it on my forehead and…
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Amy Isikoff Newell
Prayer
Listen now (4 mins) | Prayer “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you…
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Amy Isikoff Newell
Kites
Listen now (3 mins) | Kites “Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with…
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Amy Isikoff Newell
Golem
Listen now (2 mins) | Golem “He who put the soul in the body is the One to remove it." -- from the Babylonian Talmud You touch down in Azerbaijan, in…
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Amy Isikoff Newell
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