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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words navigate, mineral, blizzard, and consent.

 

Paracusia
 
so I began to blow
great, desperate puffs of air
but the flames engulfed the bed
 
Shanon Connor Winward

 

#87
 
She could hear them outside, stalking and laughing
as she ripped up tomato plants from beside the back gate.
 
Christina Thatcher

 

Midnight
 
A thin mist hangs after the winter rain.
The streets tremble in their halogen halos.
 
Mathew Joseph

 

Two Poems
 
there was much more
to this tooth fairy thing
than I supposed
 
David Oestreich

 

Three Poems
 
Some days, our calls go unanswered.
 
Katie Steele

 

Two Muses
 
A gaunt, old woman emerges out of the darkness and moves wavering towards me. She is tented in a muu-muu printed with large dark flowers like hibiscus, blurred purple bruises.
 
Jascha Kessler