Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Verbal Destruction and Restoration By Ryan Haack With my words, I destroy you. Little slices at first, like cardstock papercuts to the skin between your fingers, for which there is no special term. An insult and you feel like an ant, crushed underneath a giant foot; even worse […]
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Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Lightning Poetry
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Lightning Poetry By Maxwell Baumbach in my dream lightning struck outside the mouths of ordinary beings turning the words they spoke into poetry it would be beautiful if we could do that in reality on our own Maxwell Baumbach’s poem Youth at its Finest (September 2010) is his most recent […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Words
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Words By Mildred Speidel She said yes He said no Then a maybe would soon echo I love you so Well I love you Then what’s the problem with “I do” I’m not sure Well neither am I So that ended it all She did not reply Silence […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Words Upon a Plaque
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Words Upon a Plaque By James G Piatt Words upon a plaque Silent memos Of our lives consisting Of countless Inward and outward Battles lost and won Lives etched On slabs of wood With unmemorable Words engraved On thin yellow Metal foil A once existence That can never […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Words
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Words By Hugh Fox Remembering back to obsessive Fox back when I was in high school, everyone else out base- and footballing it, me at home in my cubbyhole bedroom in our apartment on the far South Side (Chatham) in Chicago, reading all of Aldous Huxley’s and James […]
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