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Special Feature — Word Poems
 
There are no word poems this issue, but if you'd like to participate in the challenge for the next issue, the words are gull, attic, trample, metallic.

 

New to Me
 
To the east limestone cliffs reach two hundred
feet, to the west a slim river's carved estuary
 
Stephen Germic

 

The Blue Kayak
 
Where are you?
I daren't call out, even as I
see the vastness of the lake.
 
Gay Baines

 

A Dog Called Yesterday
 
The man with three heads,
brains, arms, ears, and eyes
is walking his three dogs
 
Michael Crane

 

Gilon-Gilon (The Harvest)
 
a hundred
performers, in split-second
flight, arch, slightly
 
S.L. Corsua

 

Two Poems
 
if all the maple trees whisper incessantly but you
don't speak foliage, can you trust leafy vowels?
 
Michaela Gabriel

 

Two Poems
 
He knows the failed liver of the third wife
the way a muskrat knows the wetlands
 
Lauren Henley

 

Two Poems
 
You are
our stubborn mountain dog
and in the past I've said stupid
dog right in front of you.
 
Rose Black

 

Two Poems
 
As men aligned doors, rigged the long throat
of the furnace to bellow its blackness up,
my groom wrote sermons
 
Laura Madeline Wiseman

 

The Nut Tree
 
For a boy, he said, I pray God to be stable and firm
As this nut tree will be.
 
Elvedin Nezirovic

 

Seven
 
The squirrel's lived nearby long enough not to fear the now-arthritic dog who learned long ago he won't catch squirrels in a yard with this many trees.
 
David McAleavey

 

Invisible Man
 
flaw
joined to flaw to make
a cobweb of pain
 
Aseem Kaul

 

A Disaster
 
I don't know what the order was
in the piles along the wall
before the disaster.
 
Vasyl Holoborodko, Trans. Svetlana Lavochkina

 

The Lost Manuscript
 
But here, too, we have Moguls and Saracens,
The Ukraine with its corvine ashes;
And billows of smoke
 
Dmytro Kremin, Trans. Svetlana Lavochkina

 

Two Poems
 
This is the space without my father.
Don't try to fill it with anything else.
 
Guiseppe Getto