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In Defense of Futile, Beautiful Things.
Your art is not a waste of time.
Jul 8, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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We're all going to die!
And other joyous refrains.
Jul 17, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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A Girl Saves a Whale
Part One
Jul 26, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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What I Really Want to Do
A Sunday Poem
May 25, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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I. It All Started With a Pebble
A Memoir in Animal Encounters
Dec 11, 2024
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Kendall Lamb
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What is Ours
An octopus story
Jan 15
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Kendall Lamb
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Over My Head
A story poem
Dec 30, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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Undivided
A Christmas Poem
Dec 24, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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The Only Power You Ever Knew
A Festivus Poem
Dec 17, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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Searching for Spouts
It must mean something.
Dec 11, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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American Gothic and Schrödinger’s Cat
An ode to quantum physics
Nov 29, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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All That I Do Not Know
A Tuesday Poem
Nov 25, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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A Bloody Miracle
That time I did not die from rabies.
Nov 7, 2025
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Kendall Lamb
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A Bloody Mystery
A Bit of Halloween Flash Non-Fiction
Oct 31, 2025
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