Loose Words Letter #58
The Coin of Your Life
Welcome to the weekly newsletter from Loose Words. These letters go out every Thursday and highlight many of our published poems from the past week. Loose Words is a poetry publication brought to you by Assemblage to capture all of your disconnected thoughts and let them find their form.
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” — Carl Sandburg
Each week, we will post a few lines from each featured poem (all friend links so anyone can read them) to give you a preview of the whole. We encourage you to read the full version by clicking in and taking that minute. A one-minute read could change your day.
Featured Poet
Each week we feature one of our contributing poets at Loose Words on our homepage and in this letter. This week it is Madeleine Anne Bognar.
Collection
Collections are groupings of poems with an overall theme. You can find Collections on the homepage underneath the Featured Poems, Notes From the Editor, and Featured Poet sections.
Time features 8 poems from 8 different poets from our archives. This section is a great way to get acquainted with multiple works around one theme, as well as to find poets you haven’t read before or ones you shouldn’t miss.
Time features loose words from Gail Walter, Connie Song, Dionne Charlet, Jessica Lee McMillan, Jonathan Greene, Bradley J Nordell, Estrella Ramirez, and Gregory D. Welch.
Selected Loose Words From Last Week
“There is so much noise in the silence of this world.
So much color in the darkness of a moonlit night.
The poetry of the universe is not for the fainthearted.
A vision of wildness, at once beautiful and devastating.”
“And buried inside that child
is the reversal of time,
and me, as an old man,
waiting to be young again”
Anti-intellectual by Jessica Lee McMillan
“Perhaps it’s safer to bury intellect
and frame the world in simpleton prose
— mundane as parking lot gum — “
I Thought You Would Be Safe, Not Sacrificed by Lavender Nightmares
“I wish you had told me
that people break
in the most unexpected ways”
“There was a time,
my sanguine voice was as sultry
as the sun
undressing wildflowers.”
“Without the stabbing and sunburns, we
forget which way to turn — attracted less
than repelled — by swords and sticks, spikes
and whips. This is a world of invisible glass”
“Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” — John Archibald Wheeler
Slow down.
