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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words gull, attic, trample, and metallic.

 

Dream
 
We searched the yard by flashlight for the objective correlative,
Of leaving home with a suitcase, on foot, by rollerskate
 
Helen Wickes

 

Headstone with Harvest Images
 
Dear wilderness, last night I dreamed
of an electric slumber
 
Sarah Sloat

 

Apocalypse for One
 
the cup waiting
to be washed, the view
over rooftops
 
Zoë Gabriel

 

As Real as Real
 
I am thinking of the continuum,
primordial soup to postsolar cinder,
along which we are borne
 
Oliver Rice

 

flash cards
 
she asks how long her mother
and i were married. i can't recall.
 
Ken Taylor

 

Building a Plane
 
"How do you plan to get this plane
out of your apartment?" she asked.
 
Bob Bradshaw

 

A Difficult Mountain
 
She tells me, these days
her dreams are of climbing uphill on a difficult mountain
where she is always falling short of footholds
 
Rohan Chhetri

 

Forecast
 
Each star begins apart from itself.
Each moment is lost.
The sum of us is ponderable.
 
Marc Frazier

 

An Appearance of Two Moons
 
I stood in the dark, the mercury streetlights
crackling
 
Marilyn Ringer

 

The Gentlemen Farmers
 
These are the lives
of those who have stayed in a town that has grown
too large for their vision of rural innocence.
 
Brad Buchanan

 

Untitled
 
you count out loud
as if one sun still touches another
 
Simon Perchik

 

Schuylkill
 
I can still smell
     the mud of your shallows
from here
 
Jed Myers

 

Two Poems
 
Yet, we were nothing if not
culpable, our meek (yes, meek) encroachment
still hinting at extinctions yet to come.
 
Derek N. Otsuji

 

No Place. Like Home?
 
I tried to make small talk.
And succeeded.
 
A.J. Huffman