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Special Feature — Word Poems
Poems containing the words flowers, gloves, perpetual, and hinge.

 

Four Poems (Spotlight Runner-Up!)
 
Birds braid tree limbs
into fluency, while we flicker like old photographs
in the dwindling light.
 
Sharon Fagan McDermott

 

Two Poems
 
I like to think of him as a small boy, disassembling
the old phonograph his father gave him.
 
Erica Goss

 

On Innocence
 
his two hands with a life-time's worth
of mechanic work, dirt and hurt
 
Mark Magoon

 

Untitled
 
as if a whisper
could pull the stars down
 
Simon Perchik

 

Legs
 
I was teaching her something I'd just
that moment learned myself
 
Chris Tannlund

 

Snapshot
 
I listen to pictures
voice their events
 
T. L. Cummings

 

At Childe Hassam's Table
 
She has fallen in love and must say so,
shows us flecks of goldfish
she almost failed to see
 
Marjorie Mir

 

Two Poems
 
If I climbed the tangerine steps—
three to the porch—you would paint me there
 
Nicole Borg

 

Sigh
 
If only
 
Bob Bradshaw