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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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MARCH 2025
ISSUE 55
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HOW IS LIFE DIFFERENT NOW FROM WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?
I was a child during the Eisenhower Administration, and I thank God for that. Life was simple then. White gloves, pearls, and bangs. We...

II.
Man have I missed the Oregon coast Bathing suits and puffy coats fishing boats and fleece, all styles of sporting hats with flannel and...


Gender Euphoria
Gender euphoria is standing in a women’s dressing room wearing all men’s clothes, down to the boxers. It’s learning there’s a ‘t-word’...


Together, Our Fingers Weave a Basket
A hand held in the dark, Different than that swinging lope Of our daylight lark. The gentle squeeze, comfort, trope. If I could lace with...


The Sound of a Piano Playing on the Train Tracks
I recorded a song on the piano I fell in love alone in the grass I thanked the stars just for being there even if their love was already...


At my ankles
he sits, or lounges nobly, a gentlemanly position with expected canine vigilance. A chimera all: he is really frightened, sexually...

Sideways Paving Co.
Featured Artists: Topher DiBona Ryan Kleshefsky Religion or Spirituality: Objectivist Rationalism (Ayn Rand’s Philosophy) Stoicism...

TO THE FIELDS
After Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth (1948) I inhabit this place, I guess to define it as home. Where I’ve lived ever since I can...
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