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The Bel Esprit Project, co. est. 2020
"Either you had Bel Esprit or you did not have it."
- Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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APRIL 2025
ISSUE 56
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Springtime Invocation
In the darkest months of winter, it feels Like we are stuck in our cozy Glass snow globes, happily bound inside Like porcelain dolls....

UNRAVELLED THREAD
Assessing the damage (as one does) The detritus of your life A crazy land of Dangling participles A desk choking on Garamond Splinters...

Storied Ground   Â
I like to write poems in the passenger seat of my car, parked in the shade in a cemetery not far, nary a sound, stories all around, ...

Belle du Jour
An. I mean I don’t know. I’ll try. I can’t move. And God, my head. My head. Please, I’m trying. I mean I hardly slept. I had that...

Just because …
Just because I have an idea Does not mean it is a good idea. Just because my idea is a good one Does not mean it is the only good one....

Elizabeth
How is it possible that the presence of one small person can unblock the waterways of the heart And allow ships of sadness to finish...

Cassandra
On an island only in my mind, Nothing more on than what I need. Wind caresses my waterlogged hair, Chills crawl down my spine, and take...

Pot Testation or, An Instant of Noodles
I bought a pot. It wasn’t huge, but enough to cook instant noodles in my dorm, so they no longer had to be wiggly, crunchy, oily puffed,...
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