Childishly, I still have trouble accepting that a paper-linen strip has a value beyond itself.  “Currency” tries to capture the dominance our male-centered imagery exerts in this country, but I’m not preaching, just observing.  Also, parenting is impossibly unpredictable, at times hilarious, and always costly (wallet and soul, both).

Alisha Goldblatt is an English teacher and writer living in Portland, Maine with her two wonderful children and one lovely husband.  She has published poems in the Common Ground Review, Literary Mama, and Burningword Literary Journal, among many others, and several essays in other journals.