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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words blanket, acorn, backward, and refract.

 

Better to Be Safe
 
When we have a quiet moment
in the safe places, she says the trucks
make her think of tasting her own blood
 
J. Kelley Anderson

 

III. Usurper
 
You'll find sand dollars instead
of rent, and toss them into green-
mouthed waves.
 
Rachael Jennings

 

Albino
 
An albino buck's
in the neighborhood.
 
Miriam Kotzin

 

Two Poems
 
If there were no night,
would there be fewer horrors?
 
Ivy Grimes

 

Paperboy's Lament
 
blank pages
are those
I like best
 
Vincent Canizaro

 

Two Poems
 
Everything else you see is up
        and far beyond
Your progress here.
 
Jared Carter

 

Two Poems
 
Not special enough, you
think, not special at all
 
Kelly Nelson

 

First-born
 
It was my joy to guide her,
revealing all I had discovered
walking by myself.
 
Marjorie Mir

 

On Being Mistaken for Part of the Entourage of the President of Iceland
 
I was not aware that I resembled
a dandelion gone bad
 
John Branscum

 

Little Bo Peep
 
I keep telling myself
this is radiance.
 
Andrew Morris