Our thoughts in exchange for yours.

The Exchange is the Weekly’s poetry corner, where a poem or piece of writing is presented with a prompt. Readers are welcome to respond to the prompt with original poems, and pieces may be featured in the next issue of the Weekly.

The Function of Forehead

by

theoretically speaking, functionality considered, you gotta be big. you’ve got big responsibilities; need the proper room to hold meetings and mediate between my eyebrows and my edges. hold my thoughts in place, Steward of My Frontal Lobe/wig.

remind folks i am my fathers child, this is where i hold his genes. remind me of the moon, so influential.

you drive a facial expression home, shift skin around like the tide, ripples remind folks i have an attitude.

Spring Commute

by sky patterson

Cold sheets of rain fall as I march to my bus stop. Walk turns into run.

A Haiku about Fall/Spring, Death/Rebirth

by alejandro hernandez

A lively Summer

Fades. Leaves turn golden and die, Nourishing next spring

A Haiku About Smoking Weed in a Forest in Michigan

by alejandro hernandez

Green all around me

Smoke signals drift in the wind

God bless Mother Earth

Chima Ikoro is the Weekly’s Community Builder.

THIS WEEK'S PROMPT: “EXPLAIN THE FUNCTIONALITY OF SOMETHING YOU SEE EVERY DAY.”

This could be a poem, journal entry, or a stream-of-consciousness piece. Submissions could be new or formerly written pieces. Submissions can be sent to bit.ly/ssw-exchange or via email to chima.ikoro@southsideweekly.com.