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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words cowl, reveal, granite, and unfinished.

 

Two Poems
 
Moon and Water, looking on,
turned the three boats into six.
Ganesha laughed and cried for more.
 
Marjorie Mir

 

Cutting Down the Back Yard Trees
 
Why did we let these scowling pines
dominate our lot for so long?
 
Bob Bradshaw

 

Division
 
Division, Division, Division.
It rolls off his tongue
like freshly whipped cream.
 
Marjorie Wallace

 

The Good Night
 
At the end of the day
An old doe drinks
In her solitary pool of light.
 
Robert H. Guard

 

Double Vision
 
Since the eye surgery
I see one-plus-one
of everything.
 
Christine Vovakes

 

Turtle Moon
 
there's a turtle
balanced atop the moon,
it's ancient claws dug in
 
Marc Berman

 

Central Channel Rise
 
My tires slap the drizzled pavement's cheek like
the steaming chamois of a zealous barber
 
Tracy Koretsky

 

Two Poems
 
How piteous is the peasant's
gesture, holding his nose
 
Hilary Sideris

 

The Passing of Flora, the Seamstress
 
Each thread holds memory,
the warp of her years
unfolding from the bolt
 
Jean Howard

 

The Wanderer's Second Night Song
 
Two hundred thirty years now, and your poem continues its blessing of hearing under the lines, below rhyme and meter, of feeling words open beneath us
 
Robert McNally