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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words vault, bracelet, gather, and planet.

 

Rain Moth
 
rain drizzles on the glass,
swells the hardwood pane
 
Vincent Canizaro

 

Three Suburban Sonnets
 
Together we fight demons from the moon,
and sentient brains on shadow earths estranged
 
Ray Nayler

 

My Father the Poet
 
You taught me how to fix a pipe
that had burst into a forlorn song
of sobbing late one night
 
Bob Bradshaw

 

Drought
 
A dozen raindrops
would be more welcome
than a tumbling Krugerrand.
 
Scott Urban

 

Depression
 
I'm lost
to the spiral
handed down from dark wintering drunks.
 
Kelly Nelson

 

Torn Photograph, Ohio, 1923
 
She had named her imaginary dog Whimper
and an equally unreal goldfish Nevermore.
 
Rich Ives

 

Two Poems
 
The man heads his boat for a high wall of trees
That is the painting's end, as far as we can see.
 
Daniel Wormhoudt

 

The First Poem I Publish
 
I will lie and I will contradict myself,
because that is what the poem will quietly demand.
 
Brian Keathley

 

Death March
 
The radio,
fed from miles of darkness, cannot
penetrate this.
 
Nicole Borg

 

A View of a Storm
 
I saw it from my window:
The fishes, freed, walked on land.
 
Jeremy Freedman

 

Mother Earth
 
Consider the cruel frigidity of the polar regions.
 
Oliver Rice