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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words fume, pound, countertop, and postscript.

 

Greenwich
 
green goslings shuddering in a sudden
river breeze; darkling bark that wraps
our insides
 
Janice Pariat

 

Two Poems
 
She made all the stupid concessions
I always had, so I left her alone.
 
Sandy Anderson

 

The Artist Shen Chou Is Dissatisfied
 
Accept for now art's limits;
yield instead to spirit,
the limitlessness of sky.
 
Marjorie Mir

 

Two Poems
 
I was deaf to the birds, blind to the sun
till that man found me: my love, my ticket out.
 
Michaela Gabriel

 

A Love Story That Is Not Mine
 
You are determined now to be a deity, a thousand
Aztec shrines in face of his crooked circles.
 
Hala Alyan