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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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JANUARY 2026
ISSUE 61
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L’ETE DERNIER
No portal to some magic land for you. Your armor of long ago-- a carapace of tangled curls and the key to the attic-- will not save...


Origin
Here, where long fields curve and bees spread apart the fuzzy middle of flowers, where the loam is loose and dark, one seed has yet to...


Meditation from a Collection of Matter
Photograph by Michael McPhie I am made of the elements; Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, Like the endless expanse of the universe. My chest...


Artifact
By Katie Scruggs Galloway I confuse and tire myself going over what I did and did not tell him. He persists with the assertion that he...


The Burning
The burning. The burning. Something glass shattered. It woke her up sometimes. Trapped in that doorway again. Pinned to the floor again....


1830, Along the Cliff Edge
You did not fly with me over the humoring clouds that grew into a shelter of pain. “Better to be together.” the whipped tree rests along...


The Pride of Bayside
the sun went green under endless Texas skies never knowing I existed until it awoke inside me the switchgrass danced as I fed...


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...
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