Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words What Remains By Rae Spencer Bone, of course Or the stone echoes of bone And children Always there are children To symbolize our guilt For the things we couldn’t change And hope Wrung from what we did Empty spider husks Wafted into corners With a clot of hair […]

  Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Wordsilk By PD Lyons reminding me of words like border line crescent coyote ancient timbers polished smooth as kisses paradise abandoned eyes of ship-wrecked sailors myriad pin prick suns flightless birds something Spanish that you said along a twilight turquoise Ishmael to Ishmael all the nights we’ve […]

  Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words I let my words purr like a cat By Laura Zucca-Scott I let my words purr like a cat Rolling in comfort and unspoken love Hoping understanding would break the night Hope is never easy to come by Sought after, corruptible and pure, A child jumping in […]

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 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 […]