John Bonanni
Currency
-Christopher Street, NYC, 1969
our hands
as though
we knew it was
this first fist
the coins before
must not have
been enough
must not
have kept them
from coming
the stone
the carton
the coins
first the penny
then the nickel
it was the coins
thrown first
John Bonanni reads “Currency”
A Pushcart and Best New Poets nominee, John Bonanni serves as founding editor for the Cape Cod Poetry Review. His poems have appeared in CutBank, North American Review, Verse Daily, Seattle Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hobart, Washington Square Review, and Prairie Schooner, and his literary criticism has appeared in Rain Taxi, Tupelo Quarterly, and Kenyon Review.