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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words amulet, physician, dare, and vertical.

 

What I Learned at 33 1/3
 
She wears a crucifix and believes
the moon can turn a yellow cloud
into the outline of a fist  
 
Alex Stolis

 

Scattered Snowflakes
 
Euripides,
comfortable in the steady
warmth of Athens, may never have seen one.  
 
Erie Chapman

 

The Office
 
I daydream Willy Loman's face in my soup,
coveting my button-down schemes  
 
J. Kelley Anderson

 

Leaving India...
 
I buy a wooden inlay
Sarasvati  
 
Belinda Subraman

 

Street Scene
 
In his dream, basketball, the bounce bounce of rubber on asphalt and every three-pointer slips right through the hoop, and there's no such thing as pressure. Everything is symmetry. His pulse is big, the winter chill is nothing.  
 
Sam Byfield

 

Tunnel of Love
 
Ahead of me two shadows melted
together in a Spanish galleon
called Paradise Lost.  
 
Bob Bradshaw

 

Two Poems
 
When I looked away from the bath,
My children took the water and twisted it,
Wrung from wash cloths fountains bent
Like turkey necks, and let them splash.  
 
Brad Bostian

 

The Street Dog Speaks
 
The click of ten nails on the macadam—
my cup o' ivories, my roulette, my
little gunboats of luck, my dice.  
 
Timothy Bradford

 

The Dwelling
 
the forgiven and what cannot be
bobs like a cork
in seething silence  
 
Robert James Berry

 

Our Vacation
 
He's from two ferries
and a road
that bends an ocean.  
 
Patricia Parkinson