Wellspringwords® Literary Anthology

To Be a Living Ancestor

Issue 5 | Spring/Summer 2026

cover artwork by Steph

Mariah Maddox Mariah Maddox

In Flesh & In Bone

“It is not that I solely carry the survival and experiences of those who have come before me, but that my own survival and experiences are being woven into the tapestry of my lineage, as I am breathing and being. The journey between my birth and death marks what will become my evocation.”

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Nkem Chukwumerije Nkem Chukwumerije

Scatter Your Ashes, Alive

“And if music is inherent to our being, and we are being advised to take the music seriously, take the inner song seriously, take life’s melody seriously, aren’t we being reminded that Spirit is inherent to our being? And to take Spirit seriously?”

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