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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words indolent, antidote, chisel, and anoint.

 

Two Poems
 
Silver the leaves of the olive tree, shrill the mid-summer cicada,
all is remembered, forgotten, and all is remembered once more.  
 
Jared Carter

 

Stradivarius
 
We will drink from our shared wound, suffer in a wheat field's sway, swim night's long moon.  
 
Erie Chapman

 

Two Poems
 
It is the way feet
colonize a life, the way experiences
sweep themselves into dust bunnies  
 
Doug Ramspeck

 

Burying Chernobyl
 
 she planted
her husband
her baby.
she shoveled
the rows of potatoes.  
 
Barbara Roush

 

Two Poems
 
Even the porch mums
are out of gas, December's
hollow shine curling
the maple's brittle palms  
 
Sally Molini

 

Two Poems
 
Now let us look at the letter 'U'
(Can you see this fall and rise?)  
 
Oleg Semonov

 

15.
 
The thermometer factory was long in the distance,
although silver dust still glittered on mother’s cheeks.  
 
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

 

Hooves Could Fly
 
Where are your limbs right now?
Where precisely is the thing that will kill you?  
 
Anna Madsen Fogel

 

Found Art
 
Now let us praise the discretion
of houses.  
 
Jane Halpert

 

Yellow Magic
 
This kind of thing cannot be spoken about.  
 
Anuradha Vijayakrishnan

 

Two Poems
 
Is persistence a truth?
Is defiance? What of bravery? I wish she could retire  
 
Don Mager

 

Outside Tree
 
We wintered there
Near the streets where the wrappers
blew towards damp corners  
 
Michael Gustie