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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words drape, harpoon, lullaby, and garden.

 

A Turtle in my Backyard
 
she was hiding
so I pretended not to look
 
Noah Engel

 

Two Poems
 
I've come a long way.
I tell myself that.
 
Danny Earl Simmons

 

A Day on the Farm
 
I listen to you as if
listening to myself. Line for line your voice
dies where mine begins.
 
Joel Fry

 

Dad
 
He had survived the war.
He wasn't afraid to try things
 
Bob Bradshaw

 

Two Poems
 
We're sure she's on the lists that people keep, her name lurking in the hard drives of Homeland Security.
 
Jillian Merrifield

 

Coast Starlight, Northbound
 
Here now is the Pacific.
Ventura. Anacapa,
A dark form in the gloom
 
John Ladd Zorn