PDF Download:The Common Language Project 2018 Winners' Anthology
Cole Murphy, Take Shelter
Take Shelter Cole Murphy Take Shelter, Join the city, Living in fear, Learning to embrace the stanchion of life, Thankful for the shade, Tender and warm, Listening to the harmony…
James Mendur, The City Monk and the Country Monk — A Conversation in Haiku
The City Monk and the Country Monk — A Conversation in Haiku James Mendur Spring in the city – Living a simple monk’s life as it awakens Listening to Spring…
Kari Lynch, Student Body
Student Body Kari Lynch I watch you weave disaster out of bad decisions mixed with Good intentions Then hear you singing the common chorus of despair That I once knew…
Debra Levy-Fritts, Children: Cities
Children: Cities Debra Levy-Fritts Seek the welfare of the city… — Jeremiah 29:4-7 What blessing can be made, what listening in, lifelong shade, really, to guide the steps away, the…
Sara Kumar, Anne’s Lament (A Letter from Anne Hathaway to William Shakespeare)
Anne’s Lament (A Letter from Anne Hathaway to William Shakespeare) Sara Kumar Dear husband, it is I, your simple maid I trust the city sun shines bright for you The…
Archana Kannan, A Suppressed Great
A Suppressed Great Archana Kannan I am now living in a simple, smiling city, listening to the common people from a balcony and I clasp your body into an embrace…
Christine Irving, Listening for What the Walls Might Say
Listening for What the Walls Might Say Christine Irving I shelter in the shade of a simple city stanchion scrubbed clean of spray paint, no hidden messages embedded in graffiti’s…
Alan Gann, last important thing
last important thing Alan Gann Cannot fathom why the doorman does not lift this rope and let these shoes pass the stanchion. Money is a shade that cannot buy luster…
Brenda Gaba, Nightlife
Nightlife Brenda Gaba It wasn’t a singing I heard, nothing close to celebration. The life luster, a quick serve, was there, and then night dust lost it. I had been…
Rhett Forman, We Are Singing the West
We Are Singing the West Rhett Forman we are singing the west singing the living frame of Dallas city singing the stanchion bearing plain singing the once listening glistening luster…
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