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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words drown, summon, dissolve, envy.

 

Two Poems
 
That night and each one after, every girl
wears a tiny t-shirt and bouncy hair.
 
Mark Magoon

 

Three Poems (Spotlight Runner-Up!)
 
He lives alone. His explosion,
the austere and wondrous daylight fire
goes unclaimed
 
Gary Dop

 

Two Translations from the Bulgarian
 
What mattered most was written last:
I have loved, thank god!
 
Draga Dyulgerova, translated by Jascha Kessler

 

Eleven Poems on Wine in a Single Afternoon
 
Each sip a lecture
leading to the next
 
D. M. Jerman

 

Antecedent
 
Remember the geography
of names, the chain-link longitudes
 
Patrick Kindig

 

Hope Triolet
 
It's a five-gallon bucket of six-penny nails,
left out in the weather to fill up with rain
 
Danny Earl Simmons

 

Broken Chimes
 
Last week the breeze took two.
Shooting them
down with shrill cries.
 
RK Biswas

 

Ten Years Later
 
the Lake Michigan swell, raised
man-high by the same December
wind that cut its chill
 
David Oestreich

 

The Visitors
 
The moment she arrived,
skates rolled out of hibernation,
jump-ropes slithered down from shelves
 
Marjorie Mir

 

Two Poems
 
Say the hedge gets clipped, the ring whirs off the finger
and back to the jeweler, and all you know for certain
is that you don't know.
 
Robert Okaji