04/27/2025
I’m pleased to announce that issue 44 of Word For/Word is now online at www.wordforword.info/vol44. It features some terrific new poetry, visual art, and prose. I hope you check it out!
Here is an excerpt from the new issue:
“Roll On Bright Home,” by Claire Crowther
This morning I evicted my house.
I served it notice
through the kitchen door
and wandered away to the High Street.
A crystal shop shone
with bowls of bright gems.
If I had seen my grey cave lighten,
become a geode
prickling with rose quartz,
if I had thought bricks could radiate
gleams of tourmaline –
it wouldn’t be homeless.
Then juddering up the street, subjected,
tied to a lorry,
trembled my ex-house.
It passed me. Police cars screamed as I touched
my wall, my blind shell.
How it rocked, rocked, rocked.
Home is not ground-set, I know that now.
It keeps me. I will
ride my home always,
my dull pale pebble enclosing
emerald moss-agate
and obsidian
in its violet heart. It dances.
Home beyond boundary,
I will go with you.
