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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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IT DIDN'T COME HOME
And you're still sending the same shitty emails laying the same shitty bricks serving the same shitty customers answering to the same...


IF YOU LEAVE, PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS
Because I do not have the impetus to do it myself I will leave the bulbs burning bright and diligently change them when they expire I...


Aberconwy Fable
Down the hill my egg fell open to reveal a perfect ball; green like a grape and as solid as my skull. When we drank the salt, a witch...

Miracle Boy
(Ch. 1 & 2) By Jack Moody 1 Sometimes I can float. I can move things without touching them. People wouldn’t believe me so I don’t tell...

Great Poets
1. Great poets keep soft palms. There’s no poetry in working your hands until the skin calluses to wood and you can sharpen your fingers...

Measuring Silence
In autumn, silence must’ve been scattered – top of the maple, where the moon hangs small and yellow. Gibbous sounds, clinging onto...


Bumblebee Apology
To the bumbling bee I obliterated yesterday, the one who stung me on the heel mercilessly and whose life I stomped out, an enraged...

Mom Died
When I got the news that Mom passed away My being filled with such richness of emotion “How do I feel?” I was asked, and I could not say....


a worm drowning in a sidewalk crack
curled coiled motionless either resigned to fate or in revolt a recipient nonetheless small droplets still flee...
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