Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Fame By Ian Gammie There was silver in my jar that I pocketed for a paper. No one reads them these days, but I saw your piece, it said looking for fame. Now I’m swiping plastic cards, stacking up hours to buy broken adventures on turbo engine planes. […]
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Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Licorice Cement: Revisited
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Licorice Cement: Revisited By Alice Shapiro Once I wrote nonsense jabberwocky, jargon, words juxtaposed to make a poem. When they awarded me thirty pieces of silver I tried to fake it again. Failing I now offer up that anomaly one rare stab at language, rhythm an awkward push […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Sin of Omission
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Sin of Omission By Kim Klugh What needs to be said is that I regret my silence that I did not speak up that I did not say stop breathe take a step back that my courage froze full in my throat so in the end I was just […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Fission
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Fission By Ray Sharp Written words are stable atoms, elemental units of meaning that bond in thought molecules, but when we talk we emit radioactive isotopes prone to degradation, hot charges that burn under the skin. How long is the half-life of a lie? How strong is a […]
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Gifts Not Errors
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words Gifts Not Errors (for Sophie) By Louis Gallo You will not remember when you saw leddo, never yellow, and the integers refused to toll in rigid gongs, eternally fixed, but danced … one, two, five, three, ten, eight and on toward intinity, the secret number no one knew about […]
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